Million Lines of Code

Is a million lines of code a lot? How many lines are there in Windows? Facebook? iPhone apps?

» Did we miss any? Let us know.
» See the data: http://bit.ly/KIB_linescode
» Read the Reddit discussion

Updated with clarifications & additions. Thanks to Joe Sadoski, Axel Naumann @ CERN, Daniel Nilsson, Flavio Lehner, Richard Hartmann, Rex Stover, Marius Bauer.
» See previous version

» Check out our beautiful books
» Learn to be a dataviz ninja: Workshops are Beautiful
» Be the first to know: join our VIP Newsletter

Beautiful New Book banner
Sources:

NASA, Quora, Wired & other press reports
note: some guess work, rumours & estimates

Credits:

concept & design: David McCandless  research: Pearl Doughty-White, Miriam Quick

Data: View the data
Topics:

More