Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

#1

Post by swix » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 9:11 PM UTC

How many lines of code do you write per day on average? Whats your record? Please specify in what language, im curious

Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

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Post by ddagradi » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 9:16 PM UTC

As long as it's a negative number, it's a win. I feel like LoC as a measurement for anything is pretty outdated.

Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

#3

Post by j_baker » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 9:16 PM UTC

Dunno. SLOC just isn't an important enough metric to track. Here's an example of why that is:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

#4

Post by eru » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 9:20 PM UTC

ddagradi wrote: post #2

As long as it's a negative number, it's a win. I feel like LoC as a measurement for anything is pretty outdated.

You could look at the size of your diffs instead. Though that's not such a good metric, either.

But really, last week I helped a co-worker rip out 80 of the 100 lines of his Parsec parser.

Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

#5

Post by dangrossman » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 9:27 PM UTC

On a day where I do write new code rather than rewrite and refactor, it's usually no more than a few hundred lines. I wouldn't know what my record is, LOC-per-day is not something I take interest in.

Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

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Post by tlammens » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

And how many lines of code do you delete per day? What are you trying to measure?

Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

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Post by brk » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 10:13 PM UTC

Just 2.

But, they are each 10,000 characters on average. ;)

It's kind of a difficult metric to extract any measurable data from.

Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

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Post by TMK » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 10:24 PM UTC

Can write easily few thousands of lines of code in a day if I really want to do that, but SLOC is not good metric like others have already said. One reason for this is that you can write much code, but is it worth it when you could possibly do the same thing with way less code.

Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

#9

Post by kunley » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 10:46 PM UTC

"Every line of code not written is a correct one"

Re: Ask HN: How many lines of code per day?

#10

Post by thomson » Sun, Aug 14, 2011, 10:55 PM UTC

ddagradi wrote: post #2

As long as it's a negative number, it's a win. I feel like LoC as a measurement for anything is pretty outdated.

I decided one day to spend all my time refactoring code and ended up writing -200 lines. That was probably one of my most productive days ever.