[panic]

The size of a codebase is less about its function and more about the number of people adding code to it.

[flukus]

In turn this becomes the number of people required to maintain a codebase.

[thijsvandien]

What would you consider the main cause(s) of that?

[panic]

The 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]

That’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.

[icebraining]

The classic story: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...

[MisterOctober]

I dunno - refactoring often involves removal of a fair bit of code