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The size of a codebase is less about its function and more about the number of people adding code to it.
by panic 8y ago
The size of a codebase is less about its function and more about the number of people adding code to it.
- thijsvandien 8y agoWhat would you consider the main cause(s) of that?
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- panic 8y agoThe job of a programmer is to write code, so that’s what they do. I doubt there are very many people at Dropbox whose job it is to remove code!
- maltalex 8y agoThat’s an extremely narrow definition of a programmer’s job. I think that in terms of lines if code, my contribution to many projects was net negative.
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- MisterOctober 8y agoI dunno - refactoring often involves removal of a fair bit of code
- icebraining 8y agoThe classic story: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
- flukus 8y agoIn turn this becomes the number of people required to maintain a codebase.