Recently I became curious on how many lines of code a huge open source project I contribute to has on what languages. I found a tool called “cloc” on sourceforge, check out the results and I dare you to think again if you think you’re in a big project.
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$ cloc .
11642 text files.
11383 unique files.
42549 files ignored.
http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.51 T=193.0 s (56.3 files/s, 11577.2 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Java 9259 309032 469814 1123643
HTML 1079 24512 16894 196291
XML 205 3152 4552 34709
C++ 62 2923 3738 16397
C/C++ Header 103 1874 4249 6685
C 17 842 729 2498
XSD 15 132 124 1358
Perl 6 301 752 1323
Objective C 10 249 237 798
DOS Batch 19 118 65 704
CSS 15 184 171 675
make 14 206 355 623
Bourne Shell 23 154 172 601
XSLT 4 134 298 553
Bourne Again Shell 12 69 141 426
Python 9 126 79 416
Javascript 7 42 21 188
IDL 1 14 0 52
Teamcenter def 1 0 0 9
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SUM: 10861 344064 502391 1387949
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If you want to count lines of code for your projects give cloc a try.