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Does lines of code have any meaningful use as a statistic when I can simply include a bunch of libraries and headers to inflate it?
by govg 4y ago
Does lines of code have any meaningful use as a statistic when I can simply include a bunch of libraries and headers to inflate it?
- chris_wot 4y agoNot forgetting of course that Twitter almost certainly uses several languages on the backend, and has it entwined in their infrastructure. As TFA says: "One former Tesla engineer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the matter but was not involved, said Tesla engineers would have trouble capably assessing Twitter’s code. Distributed systems, the large-scale and spread-out network that Twitter is composed of, are not the automaker’s specialty, the person said."