Sometimes the benefit of shorter codebases is that you can actually see the code. Understanding that your logic bug is obviously somewhere within a handful of

Sometimes the benefit of shorter codebases is that you can actually see the code. Understanding that your logic bug is obviously somewhere within a handful of lines of K/Q/etc that fit neatly on a single screen vs scrolling through 200 lines of logic in Python/Java/whatever is focussing. Sure each line is more compact and may take more time to digest, but that is a reasonable trade-off in most cases. For me, 10 lines you need to read carefully beats 100 lines of having your eyes glaze over and repeatedly skip over the bug because you are so dulled to all the boilerplate.