9.9M Lines Of Code On The Wall … Open-Source Update From Facebook

What has 9.9 million lines of code and is free for use by developers? Facebook’s open-source code base.

9Point9MillionLinesOfCode650What has 9.9 million lines of code and is free for use by developers? Facebook’s open-source code base.

Facebook Head of Open-Source Projects James Pearce offered highlights of the social network’s open-source program from the first six months of 2014 in a post on the Facebook engineering blog.

Pearce wrote that Facebook has launched 64 new open-source projects so far in 2014, bringing its total to exactly 200 repositories across the GitHub accounts for Facebook, Instagram, and Parse.

He added that there have been 13,000 commits to those repositories, up 45 percent compared with the second half of 2013, and the overall size of the code base has jumped 51 percent in six months, to 9.9

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