[ExI] Millions of Lines of Code

[Omar Rahman]

> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 02:26:20 -0700
> From: Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ExI] Millions of Lines of Code
> 
> Thought you might enjoy this.
> http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/
> 
> According to this, the number of lines of code required to fix
> healthcare.gov is roughly the size of a modern web browser, firefox or
> chrome...
> 
> The kicker is at the bottom of the page. Unreal.
> 
> -Kelly

Hi Kelly,

There is no doubt that the website is a bloated piece of $#!+. The only question for me is how they achieved such epic levels of bloat and craptasticness.  The suspected size of the code base displayed on the site you gave puts this thing in a league of it's own. But seriously, how did they manage to make it so big?

Thousands of plans x thousands of insurers x 50 state versions x thousands of procedures might do it but that's data and not code. Are they counting the data set as part of the code base? I honestly have a hard time imagining how they achieved such bloat. I guess it's a failure of my imagination because somehow they seem to have done it.

Regards,

Omar Rahman