And interestingly, the code behind machines such as fighter jets, popular video game engines, and even the Large Hadron Collider fall somewhere in between these two extremes. The range is extraordinary: the average iPhone app has less than 50,000 lines of code, while Google’s entire code base is two billion lines for all services. How many millions of lines of code does it take to make the modern program, web service, car, or airplane possible? Buy their awesome book called Knowledge is Beautiful – we own the physical version, and it’s full of great data visualizations. Today’s data visualization comes from David McCandless from Information is Beautiful. How Many Millions of Lines of Code Does It Take?
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