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kqr
on March 25, 2023
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Gordon Moore has died
I suspect lines of code and number of developers are strongly enough correlated that it's hard to get any additional predictive power from the latter!
kitd
on March 25, 2023
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I think that's true when the source is first written. But # of devs only ever goes up during maintenance lifecycle, while loc may not change much.
kqr
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Maybe. In my experience it's common for developers who were not part of the original effort to maintain by addition, because they are worried changing the existing code might break stuff. So with increased maintainer count the code size grows too.
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