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cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.

39 mentions on Hacker News by 34 people: 5 stories, 34 comments · first 2016-04-18 · latest 2026-01-07

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  1. …ratatui_ruby % cloc . 888 text files. 584 unique files. 341 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.06 T=0.26 s (2226.1 files/s, 209779.6 lines/s) --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    comment by Kerrick · 2026-01-07 · in Claude Code CLI was broken
  2. …| grep error | wc -l 451 λ omarchy master Ɇ » cloc . 662 text files. 473 unique files. 253 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.06 T=0.07 s (6645.0 files/s, 133055.1 lines/s) ----------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by bsnnkv · 2025-10-22 · in A Word on Omarchy
  3. …of my comments are method/function/property headerdoc/docc labels. Here's the cloc on the middle project: github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.04 T=0.03 s (1319.9 files/s, 468842.4 lines/s) ----------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2025-07-14 · in How I build software quickly
  4. …look at the code as a base for a bespoke prompt :P [0]: https://github.com/jorgebucaran/hydro [1]: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
    comment by Tmpod · 2025-06-24 · in Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
  5. Looks like https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
    comment by wonger_ · 2025-06-05
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    Show HN: Plot lines of code over time in Git repositories
    story by genericspammer · 2025-05-20 · 0 comments
  7. Maybe better formatting would show it better to you. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.04 T=0.05 s (666.3 files/s, 187924.3 lines/s) ---- Language files blank comment code ---- Python 24 1505 1968 5001 ---- Markdown 4 37 0 121 ---- Jinja…
    comment by fragmede · 2025-05-17 · in After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain
  8. Not public on github, but here's the cloc for an easy 5k one day (10k is sweats). github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.04 T=0.05 s (666.3 files/s, 187924.3 lines/s) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by CuriouslyC · 2025-05-16 · in After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain
  9. …tps://github.com/LMDB/lmdb/blob/mdb.master/libraries/liblm... ) with ~8k of actual code (according to https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc ). Postgres's durable B-tree implementation ( https://github.com/postgres/postgres/tree/master/src/backen…
    comment by derefr · 2024-12-01 · in Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists
  10. /tmp/kibi % cloc . 98 text files. 89 unique files. 11 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.96 T=0.05 s (1936.6 files/s, 82405.1 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files…
    comment by James_K · 2024-11-13 · in Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust
  11. …around it. - [SLOCCount](https://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/) the original sloc counter - [cloc](https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc), inspired by SLOCCount; implemented in Perl for portability - [gocloc](https://github.com/hhatto/gocloc) a…
    comment by boyter · 2024-07-29 · in Counting Lines of Code
  12. …“one file for every class” thing, but I still like to keep my files relatively small, if I can. [0] https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2024-07-29 · in Counting Lines of Code
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    Cloc: Count lines (blank, comment, and physical) of source code
    story by sea-gold · 2024-07-15 · 0 comments
  14. They're probably referring to cloc the counting tool. https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
    comment by sukruh · 2024-02-12 · in Questioning "The Value of Open Source Software"
  15. …FranzCross core/ manual/ --include-lang=swift,racket 355 text files. 244 unique files. 419 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.98 T=0.06 s (2511.1 files/s, 383637.1 lines/s) ----------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by Bogdanp · 2024-02-07 · in Show HN: Franz – A desktop client for Apache Kafka
  16. I suspect you'd get much more useful results by checking out the version tags and running `cloc` - https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
    comment by pcthrowaway · 2023-10-10 · in Postgres: The next generation
  17. …unique files. 453 files ignored. 1 error: Line count, exceeded timeout: ./vendor/proc-macro2/src/parse.rs github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.86 T=9.67 s (320.2 files/s, 208065.8 lines/s) -----------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by bayindirh · 2023-06-28 · in Testing the memory safe Rust implementation of Sudo/Su
  18. ▲ 1
    Show HN: Cloc as a Service
    story by zufallsheld · 2023-05-21 · 0 comments
  19. …it's interesting for you too [3]. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2168330/Helmscape/ [1] https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc [2] https://luau-lang.org [3] https://twitter.com/kineticpoet/status/1619508466212831232
    comment by cloudmike · 2023-01-29 · in Take more screenshots (2022)
  20. …_crates/vendor/tuf-0.3.0-beta11/src/metadata.rs Line count, exceeded timeout: ./tools/auto_owners/src/main.rs github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.90 T=142.47 s (328.0 files/s, 107722.2 lines/s) -----------------------------------------------------…
    comment by nuc1e0n · 2023-01-22 · in Google Fuchsia OS team affected by layoffs
  21. …Full `cloc` report in case someone is curious: 4268 text files. 3839 unique files. 511 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.96 T=1.25 s (3079.1 files/s, 434339.6 lines/s) --------------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by capableweb · 2023-01-12 · in Ask HN: Who’s using Ruby for web development, without Ruby on Rails?
  22. …[0]. Here is cloc run against the repo: $ cloc . 75 text files. 75 unique files. 12 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.90 T=0.08 s (788.1 files/s, 271069.0 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by commandersaki · 2022-12-11 · in Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]
  23. …cloc output for the Swift iOS project I'm working on now: 54 text files. 54 unique files. 0 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.92 T=0.06 s (863.2 files/s, 477430.9 lines/s) ----------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2022-10-16 · in Protein interface – how to change aproach to building software?
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    Cloc – counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code
    story by kevinslin · 2022-05-07 · 0 comments
  25. Huh, I feel somewhat old: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
    comment by Jach · 2021-11-16 · in Show HN: Mako – a full Bitcoin implementation in C
  26. …the ripgrep repo and it tells me 28k loc ? $ cloc . 193 text files. 170 unique files. 114 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.88 T=1.88 s (73.3 files/s, 25634.5 lines/s) --------------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by jcelerier · 2021-09-02 · in System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock
  27. …following results: $ cloc . --exclude-dir test 16921 text files. 14173 unique files. 7043 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.88 T=35.06 s (354.1 files/s, 160714.9 lines/s) -----------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by capableweb · 2021-04-20 · in A curated list of JavaScript tooling not written in JavaScript
  28. You might enjoy having a look at https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc It can distinguish between actual lines of code, comments and empty lines for a lot of different languages.
    comment by oddlama · 2021-04-01 · in Show HN: Simplenetes – I replaced Kubernetes with 17k lines of shell script
  29. …https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue4-on-github Did a quick `cloc` run of the codebase, shows the following: github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.84 T=86.60 s (949.0 files/s, 297044.5 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by capableweb · 2020-05-14 · in A first look at Unreal Engine 5
  30. …): $ cloc build/ ldap/ editor/ mailnews/ mail/ 3938 text files. 3848 unique files. 949 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.80 T=6.01 s (497.6 files/s, 127309.9 lines/s) ---------------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by sciurus · 2019-01-02 · in Thunderbird in 2019
  31. …$ cloc puppet-prometheus-5.0.0 puppet-grafana-4.2.0 192 text files. 157 unique files. 48 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.76 T=1.09 s (131.9 files/s, 10534.0 lines/s) --------------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by justinsaccount · 2018-05-01 · in Operator Framework: Building Apps on Kubernetes
  32. …cloc --vcs=git --exclude-dir vendor,example,contrib . 290 text files. 278 unique files. 121 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.74 T=0.82 s (295.4 files/s, 48117.2 lines/s) -----------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by cookiecaper · 2018-05-01 · in Operator Framework: Building Apps on Kubernetes
  33. I've always used cloc instead of tokei: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc I use "x" in oh-my-zsh plugins instead of una. https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/tree/master/plugin... I use "ag" instead of ripgrep.…
    comment by baby · 2017-10-08 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust
  34. …it's own implementation is probably 1350 lines at max. This would also probably include bugs in cloc. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.70 T=2.86 s (433.6 files/s, 67570.0 lines/s) ----------------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by arunc · 2017-09-12 · in Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages
  35. …you'll earn the trust required to make an impact in the future. [1] http://cloc.sourceforge.net and https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc [2] http://pmd.sourceforge.net/pmd-4.3.0/cpd.html
    comment by suls · 2017-05-23 · in Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?
  36. …boost nes_apu Sound_Queue.* [andrea@manhattan src]$ cloc . 24 text files. 24 unique files. 1 file ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.70 T=0.03 s (780.3 files/s, 63170.2 lines/s) -----------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by andreaorru · 2016-11-28 · in LaiNES – Cycle-accurate NES emulator in around 1000 lines of code
  37. I ran `cloc` on the minoca/os repository, here are the results: github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.70 T=22.43 s (84.3 files/s, 63498.9 lines/s) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files…
    comment by no_protocol · 2016-10-31 · in Minoca OS: A new open source operating system
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    story by Bogdanp · 2016-07-16 · 6 comments
  39. …90 (0.04%) sed: 11 (0.00%) EDIT: That's the recent version 3.6.0 EDIT#2: Here's the cloc output: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.66 T=1.76 s (266.7 files/s, 181757.6 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------…
    comment by lomnakkus · 2016-04-18 · in The story behind NetHack's first update since 2003