A comparison of the total code complexity of xs versus openssh-portable
Mostly for my own interest, but a concrete illustration that Golang has a very good net and crypto library and higher-level array/slice handling for buffers and strings than C, which simplifies code immensely and is also hopefully more secure :p
TODO: Add func count/cyclo metrics comparisons
$ sloc openssh-portable
Languages Files Code Comment Blank Total CodeLns
Total 502 112982 14327 15705 143014 100.0%
C 389 105938 13349 14416 133703 93.5%
Shell 92 6118 937 1129 8184 5.7%
Make 16 468 37 131 636 0.4%
AWK 1 363 0 7 370 0.3%
C++ 3 79 4 18 101 0.1%
Conf 1 16 0 4 20 0.0%
$ sloc xs
Language Files Code Comment Blank Total
Total 36 4804 1351 930 6823
Go 23 4348 1298 764 6149
Markdown 2 206 0 86 292
Make 7 155 6 52 213
Shell 4 95 47 28 169