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137 points cdesai | 4 comments | 22 Oct 25 12:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.014s | source

1. theossuary ◴[22 Oct 25 15:36 UTC] No.45670740[source]▶

Why tf does an electric vehicle need 500m+ lines of code

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2. jeffbee ◴[22 Oct 25 15:54 UTC] No.45671045[source]▶

Some people actually write tests.

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3. serbancon ◴[22 Oct 25 20:56 UTC] No.45675045[source]▶

We actually picked a fairly conservative number - there are even larger automotive codebases today.

For example, Mercedes’ MB.OS: “is powered by more than 650 million lines of code” - see: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/behind-scenes-mbos-developmen...

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4. menaerus ◴[23 Oct 25 06:03 UTC] No.45678650{3}[source]▶

650M LoC is certainly not a single codebase that you can "checkout" and "build". Also, the figure is a little bit hard to believe.

SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem