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Philip-J-Fry on June 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: -2000 Lines of code (2004)

It's definitely a good argument for not reinventing the wheel though.

I'd rather have 250,000 lines of code but 230,000 of that is in battle tested libraries. And of which only 20,000 lines are what we ever need to read/write.

vendiddy on June 27, 2025 [–]

I will frequently extract OSS style libraries out of our app and put them in a packages/ folder.

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