>The more code lines you have removed, the more progress you have made. As the number of lines of code in your software shrinks, the more skilled you have become and the less your software sucks.
Is this true?
The more code lines you have removed, the more progress you have made...
Josiah Rivera
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Brody Harris
>As the number of lines of code in your software shrinks, the more skilled you have become and the less your software sucks.
not exactly. you can cram things onto a single line, but that doesnt mean that the code is better. in fact, it can make it even harder to read and make your software suck a lot
Nathan Baker
Ideally you should develop small tools/systems that fit together like what suckless does, but in a job where you're on a team, you most likely will be expected to jam a bunch of shit into a project.
Ignoring the philosophical or opinion aspects, it's much easier to get things working when you're pulling together tools with well defined, simple, explicit functionality.
Dylan Robinson
yes and no, in the professional world as long as your software works and is organized in a somewhat maintainable structure (everything is in the place you'd expect to find them) it's acceptable. the only way to get shat on is if you deliberately write messy code like you're the only one working here. also your software is shitty if it's full of bugs and slow, not because it has a lot of lines
Xavier Davis
It sure feels good "fixing" a feature by deleting all the code that bill wrote a few months back so that you can rewrite it and have it actually work.
Easton Miller
>removed code you don't understand
Remember what happened with OpenSSL
Isaiah Edwards
Or you could just not write bad, bloated software in the first place.
Eli Barnes
I love deleting code without reducing functionality.
Blake Peterson
qrd
Justin Morris
or adding a tiny amount of code that drastically increases/improves functionality
John Miller
>installs a bitcoin miner on your PC
nothin personnel, kid
Chase Harris
very true. in some projects/organizations LoC deleted is a solid metric as to the skill of a contributor - LoC deleted means you understood the code deeply and then rewrote it to be more efficient/readable. LoC is not a good metric as you could be adding important features or adding unnecessary bloat + complexity
Nathaniel Brooks
One way it works is that you write another piece of software, notice similarities, factor that out into a library and both new and old software gets shorter. Also, the logic in the library is not clear to see and readily available for others to use.
Another way this happens is by eliminating the problem that the software solves "upstream". For example, enforcing various invariants when things are created helps a lot in avoiding having to do a bunch of validation checks everywhere.
Tyler Robinson
This is how it feels when you simplify/modernize some pajeet code
Cooper White
Removing code is one of the best parts of being a code monkey.
Samuel Price
nooooo sir stop deleting the needful
Ethan Cook
>muh lines of code
software is judged by the end user based on the binary you give them. the user cares about the UI, the ease of use, the performance and the stability.
Only freetards wank about how nice the code looks and their software is shit because they abandon all other goals.
Elijah Adams
uTorrent 2.2.1 is actually smaller than a bitcoin miner.
>uTorrent 2.2.1: Fully featured proprietary torrent client which includes hashing pieces
>bitcoin miner: Freetard garbage which does nothing but hash
>uTorrent 2.2.1 is many times smaller.
Jonathan Price
cgminer comes with a copy of the block chain.
Lincoln Bailey
Ok...
Chase Hernandez
>.tar.bz2
Liam Howard
I have written a C++ program that has some 15,000 lines. Adding new features to it is hell, I wish I could make it shorter and more straightforward.
Cooper Sullivan
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Easton Powell
Seriously, WHY ARE FREETARDS SOOOOOOO BAD AT CODING?
8MB just to SHA-256 hash.
Grayson White
Not that simple. Sometimes it's better to add a couple or more lines to keep it much more concise either for your future self or for those that will support it in the future but overall you're right.
Zachary Ramirez
Note that's almost the size of the proprietary wonder, MikuMikuDance. JUST TO HASH. When MikuMikuDance can do this:
Grayson Miller
Honestly probably some dumb high resolution images in there. I know UI code that does this for splash and help screens.
Daniel Nguyen
A quick google says this is what it looks like.