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More code, more problems

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+title: More code, more problems
+date: 2025-02-21
+permalink: daily/2025/02/21/more
+tags:
+  - software-development
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+  The more code there is in your application, the problems you could encounter.
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+An interesting exercise is to run a tool like [cloc][0] to count the number of lines in your application.
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+It counts the number of files and lines within them, as well as how many lines are blank, comments or code.
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+It's a metric that I like to check occasionally as I like to keep codebases lean and with the minimum amount of code.
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+I don't like to have features that aren't used or [pre-optimised code][1] for use cases that may not happen.
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+The more code there is in your application, the problems you could encounter.
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+There are more places for bugs and issues to hide.
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+Keeping the amount of code to a minimum makes it quicker and easier to write, review and release as well as fix any bugs that are found in the future.
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+[0]: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
+[1]: {{site.url}}/daily/2025/02/16/pre-optimise