Firefox is one of the most complex pieces of software on the planet at around 30 million lines of code (comparable to Chrome, WebKit and the Linux kernel). Personally, I think, it’s a miracle they can maintain that with less than 700 devs. That’s more than 40k lines of code per dev, most of which they won’t have written themselves.
At $DAYJOB, we’ll write 40k lines of code maybe in two years, with a team of 5+ devs. And having to maintain 10k lines of code is what I consider rather challenging, i.e. I’ll likely start falling behind sooner or later, because the world around me moves faster than I can.
Firefox is one of the most complex pieces of software on the planet at around 30 million lines of code (comparable to Chrome, WebKit and the Linux kernel). Personally, I think, it’s a miracle they can maintain that with less than 700 devs. That’s more than 40k lines of code per dev, most of which they won’t have written themselves.
At $DAYJOB, we’ll write 40k lines of code maybe in two years, with a team of 5+ devs. And having to maintain 10k lines of code is what I consider rather challenging, i.e. I’ll likely start falling behind sooner or later, because the world around me moves faster than I can.