I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twi…
They say they they wrote it in 10k lines, while twitter was 1M, but are they including all the packages they’re using (assuming that they are)? Like I can say I built a website with 100 lines, but in reality if you compile all the packages I’m using it’s a shit ton more than that.
Just a lazy thought out loud. Idk I’m probably being dumb
The second bullet point explains it. The whole point is not about building a Twitter clone, it’s about how the framework they are selling enables building highly-scalable apps with much less code required.
Not a package but a service or framework dependency:
Our implementation is built on top of a new platform called Rama that we at Red Planet Labs have developed over the past 10 years. This is the first time we’re talking about Rama publicly. Rama unifies computation and storage into a coherent model capable of building end-to-end backends at any scale in 100x less code than otherwise.
They say they they wrote it in 10k lines, while twitter was 1M, but are they including all the packages they’re using (assuming that they are)? Like I can say I built a website with 100 lines, but in reality if you compile all the packages I’m using it’s a shit ton more than that.
Just a lazy thought out loud. Idk I’m probably being dumb
Not dumb at all and it’s kinda annoying when people brag about LoC.
The second bullet point explains it. The whole point is not about building a Twitter clone, it’s about how the framework they are selling enables building highly-scalable apps with much less code required.
So, in this case, the LoC really is the point
Yeah, BRB, moving 90% of my codebase into an “external” library
My app was written in one line: yarn run dev.
Not a package but a service or framework dependency: