On: LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app

[hw]

You don’t need 1.7m LOC to build a simple app that works well over different network conditions.

Speaking of garbage, looks like most of the 1.7m LOC on Messenger was actually garbage, now that they’ve literally thrown most of away.

[notyourday → hw]

> You don’t need 1.7m LOC to build a simple app that works well over different network conditions.

Also known as:

You can do dropbox with FTP.

If Friday is Feb 28th, then Monday is March 3rd. There's no need for those bloated date libraries.

> Speaking of garbage, looks like most of the 1.7m LOC on Messenger was actually garbage, now that they’ve literally thrown most of away.

Certainly. It worked before the change. So it is given that 1.7m of "garbage" provided a working product.

How many lines of code it took Google to make Hangout not get confused by image uploads on crappy connections? Unknown, because it is still confused.

How many lines of code it took Signal not to delay messages when a recipient is on a crappy connection? Unknown, because it still does that.