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Komag's avatar
Komag
Roku Guru
11 years ago

How long is your code?

I know the same program written crapily can take double the code length, but assuming we're all being at least somewhat efficient and reasonable, how long is your code?

Currently my game is about 7600 lines long, and weighs 440k of code, about HALF of which is comments! So probably about 200k+ of real code.

I "think" I'm about half done, but it's really hard to say.

So I'm curious how that compares to what's out there. I assume regular channels would usually be smaller than a game, but I guess I don't really know. This is my first real programming, so it still might be pretty bloated, though I've tried to kill off any repeated code if possible with good use of loops or functions.
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  • sjb64's avatar
    sjb64
    Roku Guru
    11 years ago
    Our FlixRaider channel is right about 3,000 lines, with various text file contents (about us, announcements, etc.) stored externally, so the 3,000 lines is pretty much just code. But a third of that is probably deserialization routines in the data access layer, so maybe 2,000 lines of actual operations code.
  • Komag's avatar
    Komag
    Roku Guru
    11 years ago
    That's got about 2000 lines all together, and it's nice to see the code, thanks! 🙂
  • destruk's avatar
    destruk
    Streaming Star
    11 years ago
    For a complete roku channel which loads a single live stream for playback, 50 lines.
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    11 years ago
    "destruk" wrote:
    For a complete roku channel which loads a single live stream for playback, 50 lines.

    Can you make it a 1-liner? #CodeGolf FTW!
  • RokuMarkn's avatar
    RokuMarkn
    Visitor
    11 years ago

    u=CreateObject("roUrlTransfer") : u.SetUrl("http://where/my/code/is") : Eval(u.GetToString())


    --Mark
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    11 years ago
    "RokuMarkn" wrote:
    u=CreateObject("roUrlTransfer") : u.SetUrl("http://where/my/code/is") : Eval(u.GetToString())

    LOL #NoFair
    That's like saying "10 LIST" is a legal quine (self-printing program).
    A legit one-liner can be done though, right? Just have to avoid loops and IFs.
  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    11 years ago
    "EnTerr" wrote:
    A legit one-liner can be done though, right? Just have to avoid loops and IFs.

    Does this count?
    Sub Main():screen=CreateObject("roVideoScreen"):screen.SetContent({StreamFormat:"hls", Stream:{Url:"http://media.heywatch.com.s3.amazonaws.com/hls/big_buck_bunny/big_buck_bunny.m3u8"}}):screen.Show():While True:End While:End Sub
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    11 years ago
    "TheEndless" wrote:
    "EnTerr" wrote:
    A legit one-liner can be done though, right? Just have to avoid loops and IFs.

    Does this count?
    Sub Main():screen=CreateObject("roVideoScreen"):screen.SetContent({StreamFormat:"hls", Stream:{Url:"http://media.heywatch.com.s3.amazonaws.com/hls/big_buck_bunny/big_buck_bunny.m3u8"}}):screen.Show():While True:End While:End Sub

    Abso-censored-lutely, provided it runs. My bad, i thought the loops have the IF statement problem.
    Can lose the Sub Main(): ... :End Sub brackets btw (courtesy of SquirrelTown and RokuMarkn)
  • Komag's avatar
    Komag
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    joetesta's project of 30,000 lines of code (https://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=89748) is still the biggest reported.

    My game is up to over 16,000 lines now (about 900k of code, still roughly half comments), so when it was 7600 lines and I thought I might be about halfway done, I was wrong wrong wrong! But I'd say I'm definitely more than halfway done now 😄