Uh, so Phoronix is being Phoronix, and reports quite misleading news. Let me quickly put a few things straight: first of all, "one million lines of code" is really misleading, as that appears to be raw lines of files managed by git. Since we carry large amount of documentation the actual lines of code are much lower. Using a tool like "sloccount" for counting lines of code reveals systemd currently carries ~342K lines of code, of which ~318K are proper C code. Which isn't actually that much. To put things into perspective, as one example wpa_supplicant alone has ~451K lines of code, of which ~351K are proper C code. I think as long as the supposedly huge systemd tree with all its components, such as resolved, networkd, timesyncd, nspawn, journald, and so on only reaches 75% of the size of the codebase of you frickin wifi subsystem, I think we are good, aren't we?

I mean, sure, apples, oranges and stuff, but still…

(and yeah, even stuff such as supposedly "lean" projects such as uclibc weigh 329K lines of code already…)