How Big is ED?

[BernieS]

Just curious - does anybody know how many lines of code are in the latest release of ED??

 

[Some1else]

Just curious - does anybody know how many lines of code are in the latest release of ED??

Less then the number of stars in ED!

What do I win??

LLaP

S1E

 

[Iskariot]

Just curious - does anybody know how many lines of code are in the latest release of ED??

Only a dev would know.
I think that is what David Braben's task is... counting the number of lines.

 

[Kaybe]

No one but Frontier knows how many lines of code there is in the game. Not that that's any indication as code can be very bloated and yet not provide anything.

What I can tell you is that 400 *billion* exploration star systems makes for a rather large sandbox.

 

[Jon flint]

Doubt it fits on a single floppy disc anymore

 

[roryclague]

I know the original Elite was written in assembly. What languages are used in Eliteangerous? What random number generation algorithms are used? Is it SFMT?

 

[Patrick_68000]

I know the original Elite was written in assembly. What languages are used in Eliteangerous?

I believe mainly the C++

 

[M.S.P.]

10 lines of code

I dissembled the first two lines, here they are.

10 REM Written by David Braben (c) 2016
20 GOSUB STARGENERATION

Hope that helps.

 

[GodBlock]

What difference does it make?

 

[Agony_Aunt]

You're asking an impossible question OP.

Not even an easy question for the devs to answer perhaps either. Are we including code from libraries and headers? What about the code from Cobra?

Question is pretty meaningless.