[thitcanh]

To be fair, that always refers to the LOC I wrote.

If I can write monaLisa() and get a nice painting on canvas then that really was 1 LOC.

What line count doesn’t include is the weight of the dependency, which may or may not matter.

[brixon]

Dependency weight is more a factor for maintenance than initial development.

The apps I write I have to support for many years, so this dependency weight does concern me. By dependency weight I am more referring to the breadth of authors/maintainers and not the actual amount of code. When working in the Java/.NET worlds you still deal with a ginormous amount of dependency code, but they are one maintainer that is funded. The downside of monolithic dependencies is lack of flexibility and vendor lock in.