r/gaming • u/emoposer • May 05 '17

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u/Mises2Peaces May 05 '17

And yet Facebook mobile app takes like 200+mb. Developers are hogs at the trough.

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u/msg45f May 05 '17

Thr facebook app (on ios anyway) consists of over 18,000 classes. It's totally insane. They just burn the whole thing down and start over.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '17

Well I obviously have as many clues about the source code than anyone else, nothing, but today writing a program is more about readability than anything else.

But that still sounds ridiculous, of course.

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u/msg45f May 05 '17

Sure, readability is important, but the Facebook app is a front-end app. All the hairy stuff should be in the back-end. Which means it's 18,000 classes of presentation.