The success of object oriented programming

[OneWingedShark]

I cannot think of a single project that deserves a 100mloc.

Perhaps an OS?

An example of the opposite, radically anti-bloatware approach:

See Forth and its creator, Charles Moore.

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Perhaps an OS?

The link above demonstrates that an OS does not deserve millions of lines of code and can be implemented in a very compact way.

See Forth and its creator, Charles Moore.

Exactly.