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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

each line of code is a millisecond round their neck

My man here thinking performance optimizations= fewer lines of code ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Let me rephrase then as you missed my point. Each line of code is a millstone around you, your team, and your companies neck. Maintainability usually corellates to LOC. Performance often aligns to LOC. Understanding your Big-O is far easier with less lines for when you do need to optimize. It's easy to write ten lines of code. The wisdom comes from knowing which of those lines you need and which you don't