A spiritual successor to Adam's code size short paper. Extending his script to look at many many more github repos to analyze...
- How many code files?
- Can be implemented with the current code
- How many classes?
- How many methods?
- Can be implemented with the current code (?)
- How many lines are each file, class, method? How many characters wide are each method?
- How many lines of code? Comments only? Both?
- How many variable declarations?
- How many conditionals?
- How many loops?
- How many tokens per line?
- How many literals, number and string?
Ways to split the data...
- Language
- Project size
- Solo contributor vs a few vs many
- What are we considering a contributor?
- Many stars vs a few
- How old is the project
- Are we determining from the last commit or when the project started?
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