[codecraft] Quantitative study of code repositories: the 10:1 rule

David Walend david at walend.net
Fri Aug 24 09:53:20 EDT 2018


> From: Michael Bar-Sinai <mich.barsinai at icloud.com>
> 
> Turns out that generally, for long-running code projects, for each line in a code repo, there are 10 deleted lines:
> 
> https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/ <https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/>
> 
> IMHO interesting read.

That makes me fell less lonely after deleting 20% of Shrine’s Scala code this summer. 

Thanks,

David


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