Source code statistics
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
The NetHack source code has grown considerably since Hack 1.0:
| Version | Lines of code | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Hack 1.0 | 14,652 | 1984 |
| Hack 1.0.3 | 19,261 | 1985 |
| NetHack 1.3d | 28,916 | 1987 |
| NetHack 1.4f | 29,525 | 1987 |
| NetHack 2.2a | 31,334 | 1987 |
| NetHack 2.3e | 32,891 | 1988 |
| NetHack 3.0.0 | 60,939 | 1989 |
| NetHack 3.1.0 | 96,688 | 1993 |
| NetHack 3.2.0 | 115,858 | 1996 |
| NetHack 3.3.0 | 132,643 | 1999 |
| NetHack 3.4.0 | 145,530 | 2002 |
| NetHack 3.4.3 | 152,673 | 2003 |
| NetHack 3.6.0 | 189,649 | 2015 |
| NetHack 3.6.1 | 204,374 | 2018 |
| NetHack 5.0.0 | 281,215 | 2026 |
Method terminal command syntax: wc -l src/*.c include/*.h
For comparison, the Linux kernel source contains 40,063,856 lines with the release of the first release candidate of Linux 6.14. [1]