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Last time I checked out Chromium code base it was about 300-400 Megs of uncompressed cpp files. Lets not also forget the fact you also needed to run some code generator script that generated another 200 Megs of DOM files, or interface files. At that point in time I gave up and went to sleep and never touched it again.

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I really hope Ladybird is able to stay relatively small and approachable, it would be wonderful to have as a truly customizable open-source browser that's not a massive codebase that takes forever to compile and develop.

I do think there are some geniuses working on the Chromium code base, and I would imagine there are really good reasons for doing it their way. I would imagine also Ladybird over time will face the same problems, and come up with similar solutions as Chromium team.

All I know is most of the large scale C/C++ code bases eventually become these monolithic giant code bases that require some really specialised software tools to compile and link.

Not only C and C++, I have seen this scale with most Fortune 500 projects I have been involved.

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