What if you could actually fly through an entire software codebase in 3D? 👀 Developer Rik Arends created a 3D source-code visualizer designed to handle massive software projects. In his latest demo, the tool loads Chromium, the open-source browser project behind Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and several other browsers. Chromium was launched by Google as an open-source project in September 2008, alongside the debut of Chrome. Fast-forward nearly 18 years, and the project has grown to roughly 51 million lines of code. According to Arends, the visualization can run at around 120 Hz while using approximately 3 GB of RAM. The system relies on indexing, caching, and streaming to avoid loading the entire codebase into memory simultaneously. What makes it even more interesting is that much of those 51 million lines were likely written by human developers, with a significant portion created long before AI coding assistants became widespread. The 120 Hz and 3 GB figures are based on Aren...