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by onion2k 2193 days ago
LoC makes a good bandpass filter. Too few and the code is usually hard to understand, too many and the code is unnecessarily bloated. Once you've been coding in a language for a while you get a sense of what's 'just right' for a complex feature (assuming you understand the feature properly).

What really bugs me about LoC as a metric though is when people don't count libraries. "I made a 3D engine in 10 lines" is just a flat out lie if one of those lines is '#include "Unreal/Engine'.