Lines by C vs Rust

Posted Feb 10, 2026 13:01 UTC (Tue) by daroc (editor, #160859)
In reply to: Lines by C vs Rust by daroc
Parent article: Development statistics for 6.19

So I wrote a script to crunch the numbers, and put together a set of graphs showing the change in lines of code by language over time. The charts are not as clean as the Rust-only visualizations that Miguel linked, but they show every language that cloc knows how to detect.

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Lines by C vs Rust

Posted Feb 10, 2026 19:27 UTC (Tue) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733) [Link] (1 responses)

Neat! Perhaps the making the y-axis of the total line count plot log scale would help separate out some of the lines?

Is the key listing every type of code detected or every type of code supported? If the former... is there really Clojure in tree???

Lines by C vs Rust

Posted Feb 10, 2026 20:24 UTC (Tue) by daroc (editor, #160859) [Link]

That's what the second graph is: a log scale. It doesn't help much because there are so many programming languages detected that only have a handful of lines of code. And no, there isn't actually clojure in the kernel — it looks like cloc is mis-identifying some custom configuration files in the rcutorture tests.

Lines by C vs Rust

Posted Feb 10, 2026 22:27 UTC (Tue) by Klaasjan (subscriber, #4951) [Link] (1 responses)

Is it me, or is the Perl legend missing the symbol (x) ?

Lines by C vs Rust

Posted Feb 10, 2026 22:31 UTC (Tue) by Klaasjan (subscriber, #4951) [Link]

Replying to myself (sorry about that). No that is the data for Text.