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176 points markx2 | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source

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minimaxir ◴[14 Oct 24 17:53 UTC] No.41839979[source]▶

> Rails, finally some open source! Looks like ~943k lines of code, 143k from Basecamp org. Automattic publishes 6.58M lines of open source code, 6.9x more than you. Yet, we’re “doing open source dirty”?

Wait, did he just use lines of code as a success metric unironically?

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1. znpy ◴[14 Oct 24 18:39 UTC] No.41840493[source]▶

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> Wait, did he just use lines of code as a success metric unironically?

Not only that, he also compared php code to ruby code. Totally different languages.

I'm not even arguing which one is better or worse (i dislike them both) but for example ruby is way more expressive than php... You (usually) need less lines of ruby code than php code to do most things.

Clownish, clownish.

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