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My father sent a small comment chain to me as well on a topic like this on one of his blog posts. <First guy> June 3, 2015 at 10:12 am I think software develop
by cordite 11y ago
My father sent a small comment chain to me as well on a topic like this on one of his blog posts.
<First guy>
June 3, 2015 at 10:12 am
I think software developers like to impress people with how many lines of code they can write.
<Second guy>
June 3, 2015 at 3:31 pm
That is not true. A good day is when you leave the office with more powerful software, but fewer lines of code.
<First guy>
June 4, 2015 at 4:31 am
So why is software always getting bigger ? Is it because the marketing people want to add new features all the time ? Does this even apply to free software like browsers and email clients ?
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Personally, I like writing less code, or reducing code to less code. Less to think about.
- circlefavshape 11y agoMy personal favourite is talking The Business out of things. Solving issues without any coding at all!
- idohealth 11y agoSure, it is a problem. But if you reboot the server everyday, it will not become a problem. No coding at all required.
- jeffreyrogers 11y ago> Does this even apply to free software like browsers and email clients ? The more I get involved in open source the more I think most code bloat is due to people needing their egos validated by getting a commit into a project, regardless of whether the commit is all that useful or not.
- johnny22 11y agoI've been involved for a long time, and it sure doesn't seem that way to me. Lots of that "code bloat" is simply making things portable across compilers, interpreters, operating systems and languages.
- lucozade 11y agoMany years ago I managed to convince my management that, if they had to use deltaLOC as a performance metric, that they at least use abs(deltaLoC). I then spent the next year cutting huge chunks of crap out of a C++ application that I had inherited. Was a most satisfying experience.