Ask HN: How many lines of code per day? How many lines of code do you write per day on average? Whats your record? Please specify in what language, im curious |
Ask HN: How many lines of code per day? How many lines of code do you write per day on average? Whats your record? Please specify in what language, im curious |
This is because writing code is relatively simple, whereas understanding it and ultimately maintaining it is very hard. So aiming to write more code is a very poor objective, you should be aiming to keep a project maintainable so that your costs are low (in terms of time, bug frequency, etc.).
That doesn't mean new features won't require lots of code, but there should be some way to prune old code on the same schedule.
But really, last week I helped a co-worker rip out 80 of the 100 lines of his Parsec parser.
But, they are each 10,000 characters on average. ;)
It's kind of a difficult metric to extract any measurable data from.