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by rsanheim 60 days ago
Bragging about loc was silly before ai. Now it’s not only silly, but also makes you look like a huge tool.
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I have no idea what the loc of any of my projects are. Why would I care?

And why do other people care? It's not "line of code" is an uniform measurement you can apply between languages.

A 1 loc Perl program can do more things than a 1000 lines of Enterprise-grade Java.