[capableweb]

That's not a fair comparison, rewriting anything in any lisp will dramatically reduce the amount of cruft, both lines of code and complexity.

[argiopetech]

It is still a LOC reduction produced via rewrite. I don't think we should hold it against them that they choose a great target language for the rewrite...

[kaba0]

Doubt. Plus, essential complexity is non-reducible.

[capableweb]

Essential complexity I agree, you cannot get rid of (hence the whole "essential" part). However, when you program, lots of non-essential complexity sneaks in. If you've only ever written code in one language, I bet you wouldn't even be able to notice what is essential vs non-essential.

[srcreigh]

A lot of those dropped lines of code is gonna be lines which only contain }.

[gottacodethem]

replaced by lines of )))))