I like looking at numbers. So when I saw an interesting gif on a friend’s webpage saying that a certain piece of software had so many thousands of lines of code and cost so much money, I was naturally intrigued. After clicking on the link, I was directed to ohloh.net. This site analyzes public version control repositories and provides some interesting statistics about the project–including the lines of code and estimated cost to develop the software from scratch. I decided to try for myself and registered RadLex. I would have registered my VCSFrenzy branch, but currently only Subversion, CVS, and GIT are supported.

After a little digging, it seems like ohloh uses David Wheeler’s SLOCCount program. With an easy

sudo apt-get install sloccount

I was using SLOCCount to find out more stats about various other programs I was working on. I was happy to see that my afternoon of hacking on some Festival Python bindings is estimated to have cost $3,480. Now if only SLOCCount deposited that money in my bank account….

I was wondering what your favorite tracking/code stat programs are–let me know? I’ve been using CIA.vc, but are there any other must have code stat programs?