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| ▲ | pests 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| The number was given just so we have a sense of scale of the project being talked about. Its not a competition nor are measures being made. If you wrote a program that is 1,000,000 lines of code you could also write a blog post about your thoughts on "writing 1,000,000 lines of code". You could also write a program that is 200 lines long and write a blog post about "writing 200 lines of code". One is not better than the others, you are just informing your audience of the topic under discussion. |
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| ▲ | viccis 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >I can write a program that is 1,000,000 lines of code, and a program that is 200 lines of code, and to the end user they would be doing the same thing. I think most conversations around LOC assume that it's not an idiot writing it, and I think in general, this is a good assumption to use when it comes to code discussions. |
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| ▲ | atomicnumber3 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You're the only person confused about what's meant by LOC here |
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| ▲ | TJSomething 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sure, but, assuming you are actually only counting lines of code and not whitespace or comments, if that end user asks for a new feature, it's probably going to be a lot easier to figure out where to put it in 200 lines than in 1,000,000 lines. |
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| ▲ | Vegenoid 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| To an end user those programs may be the same, but to a software engineer working on the programs they are very different. It’s not a great metric. But it does communicate something about the scale and complexity of a codebase. |
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| ▲ | otikik 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You can assume the measurement is “Lines of Code that matter” then. |
