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[abhia]

I'm fairly certain that they also included third-party libraries in that 1.7M.

[greenshackle2 → abhia]

It seems you are correct:

> We also used quite a few of the OS libraries, including the JSON processing library, rather than building and storing our own libraries in the codebase.

[saagarjha → greenshackle2]

Doesn't that mean they're not using third-party libraries?

[jjnoakes → saagarjha]

The 1.7m was pre-rewrite and the quote about using os libraries was post-rewrite; it doesn't prove they counted the libraries in the 1.7m metric but it does imply they bundled more before.