Re: Nmap is more Lua than C++ now

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:15 AM, yersinia spiros <
metaexploit.spiros () gmail com> wrote:

> These stats are better afaik
> https://www.openhub.net/p/nmap/analyses/latest/languages_summary

Yes! I forgot that OpenHub keeps historical data. Some interesting analysis:

Lua overtook C++ in May 2011, which makes 5.51 the last release with less
Lua than C++.

Lua overtook C in October 2012 after we moved the OpenSSL and Python
headers and libraries to a separate repository, nmap-mswin32-aux. This
probably also means that all our .h files are being counted as C, even if
they are C++, but I don't know how OpenHub is classifying things.

On the other hand, I think their numbers are inflated. My count shows only
245K non-blank lines of Lua, not 4M. And I don't know why they think we
have Modula-2 and Matlab code! (grep -rhc --include '*.nse' --include
'*.lua*' '.' . | awk '{n=n+$1}END{print n}')

Dan
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