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Discussion on: How do you count your lines of code?

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Zohar Peled

Question is, why would you even bother to count them in the first place? that number is almost meaningless anyway...

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codelitically_incorrect • Edited

Hi Zohar,
LoC is a high-level human benchmark in front-end UI development that tells a story, an important one and it began in the days of 14.4 modems when we just had to deliver highly optimized code.

I wrote C# and Java and write NodeJS, we never count LoC, it's compiled and is delivered as software unto servers, but you know all this.

Besides optimization, there are bigger issues in LoC at the browser side, as this article today points out:
medium.com/@sakthishanmugam02/look...

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Brian Loomis

It's also a metric that under due diligence investors will ask for.