> For me, the answer is - The code that never existed.
> Not to sound cheeky but eliminating code, is a beautiful thing. Less code is easier to maintain, understand, and faster to run. So the less code you can achieve, the better overall the software will be.
Unless you think compressed/ minified code is beautiful, there must be additional factors involved other than minimizing LoC.
To me it's removing lines of code without affecting readability (or even improving it). Like when you don't know about a language feature so you implement a hacky version, then find out there's already a very elegant standard way to do it so you get to lance that hideous monstrosity you made off your code
> Not to sound cheeky but eliminating code, is a beautiful thing. Less code is easier to maintain, understand, and faster to run. So the less code you can achieve, the better overall the software will be.
Unless you think compressed/ minified code is beautiful, there must be additional factors involved other than minimizing LoC.