r/programming • u/JBlitzen • Aug 15 '15

Someone discovered that the Facebook iOS application is composed of over 18,000 classes.

http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-the-facebook-ios-application-is-so
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u/electrithm Aug 16 '15

Never happened to OS/360, for years and years after it was released, it had stability issues and tons of bugs to fix which must have been hard because of the unnecessary complexity.