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marcinzm

The same applies to Facebook which is their comparison and not some random 10 person startup.

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Except Facebook's codebase is an order of magnitude smaller.

What makes you say that Facebook's codebase is an order of magnitude smaller?

Fb had 100 million loc in 2019[0] while google already had 2 billion[1]

[0] -https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-zoncolan-static-analysi...

[1] - https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...

That's an apples-and-oranges comparisons, 100M is just the size of the frontend/middleware code (Hack), while 2B includes everything, including configuration and generated code.

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