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What makes you think software developers write the same average amount of lines of code per day ? It seems to me the higher level the language is, higher is the
by dgsb 9y ago
What makes you think software developers write the same average amount of lines of code per day ? It seems to me the higher level the language is, higher is the average number of loc per day. IHMO Debugging has an huge impact on this average and lower level languages are harder to debug.
- pcwalton 9y agoI have not found Rust any harder to debug than, say, Python. LLDB works fine.
- dgsb 9y agoI have no experience with rust so I can not elaborate on that, but I find harder to debug a multi-threaded C++ application where race condition and memory corruption is possible than a python one. That difficulty has an impact on average daily productivity on LOC.
- marrs 9y agoThat may be because you're programming C++. :) As I recall, there is another bit of research that claims that the number of bugs written in all languages is about the same, except C++ which produces way more.
- westmeal 9y agoWhy do you say that lower level languages are harder to debug? I'd think it's the opposite.