> Blowing up the codebase size is “net gain”. Maybe OpenBSD team knows something I don't, but I got a bad vibe from this report. To be fair, I think the "net g

> Blowing up the codebase size is “net gain”. Maybe OpenBSD team knows something I don't, but I got a bad vibe from this report. To be fair, I think the "net gain" there just means "net increase" not net gain in the sense of a positive outcome. Plus, the top line deleters are removing way more than the top line adders. If I'm reading it right the total "net gain" was somewhere around negative 2.2 million lines. The post lacks nuance, but it's really just supposed to be a fun little snapshot with some simple numbers.