Did we already have a Weekly Group Rant for how many lines there are in the biggest file in the project you are working on?

I generally use Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace as length reference. It helps non-devs understand the sheer scope of the project.

I also generally don’t include CSS in this unless we’re talking about design complexity.

Two jobs ago, I was the sole remaining dev, and was responsible for four separate apps; three Rails, one React. Just one of those Rails apps was 2.5x the length of War and Peace. Total it was about 4 - 4.5 War and Peace’s.

(Yes, I know that War and Peace has several translations of differing lengths; I picked the middle one.)

Let's just say, across the 7 projects I need to keep running, 1 being 12+ years old, circa 8 million loc doesn't sound all that bad, and that's excluding the frameworks.

But god damn do I need a small, clean, project before I loose my sanity.
I think the smallest one is around 10k of custom code on top of react.

Why can't things be simple anymore?

Can these all be refactored, fuck yes, do I have the will power and resources to do it, nope 😅

Not my current project but an old one had 16k lines in a single objective-c file:

One of many huge model classes containing countless properties and methods with business logic, db access and ui representation stuff, all living together in insane, chaotic harmony.

Our project has 50k = =

Ok, I think I'm lucky then. I was coding in a file with more than 1k lines. I think it's not that bad then; it's just 3% of War and Peace.