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Having less code than you started with

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+title: Having less code than you started with
+date: 2025-02-07
+permalink: daily/2025/02/07/less
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+  My favourite type of commits and merge requsts are ones that have less code than there was before.
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+When running commands like `git log` or viewing pull requests, you can see the number of lines that have been added, edited or removed.
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+When adding new features, it's likely you'll be adding code.
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+If you're refactoring code, you may have less code than before.
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+I like commits like this.
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+It's not true that having fewer lines of code means the code is better, but having less code makes it easier to maintain and more secure.
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+You don't need to upgrade and maintain code that you aren't using, so why not remove it?
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+Why have old TODO comments, `dd()`, `var_dump()` or `console.log()` functions in the code?
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+If they're not used, they can be removed.
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+I recently read a post that suggested there were 5 to 10 bugs in each 1,000 lines of production code as a general rule, so the less code there is, the fewer places there are for bugs to hide.
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+In general, for production code, less is more.