Facebook’s open source library has grown to 9.9M lines of code

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Summary: Facebook wants to remind everyone once again how serious they are about promoting the open source movement.

Facebook loves to share how much it likes open source, and the social network has followed through on that note with a status update on its activities this year.

Here’s a rundown, by the numbers:

  • Launched 63 new projects since January 2014
  • Total active Github portfolio stands at exactly 200 for projects spread across Facebook, Instagram and Parse
  • Facebook’s open source projects have seen 13,000 total commits, an increase of 45 percent from the second half of 2013.
  • Projects collectively have netted 20,000 forks and 95,000 followers.
  • Facebook’s total open source library stands at approximately 9.9 million lines of code.

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