I don't know, but the number has been negative the past few days. :)
Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?
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Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?
#12Couldn't tell you, I don't keep track. While LoC correlates highly with number of defects(making it tangentially important), I don't find it useful as a per day metric. It is just something to minimize.
Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?
#13When it comes to maintaining most software projects, the number I hope to achieve on every commit is negative. In fact, I take pride if I can add 700 lines but remove 1500 (C++).
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.
Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?
#14I think that will be pretty much.
But less code are useful.