Lines of code

On a more personal note, I love watching the lines. I run the command to check how many lines Wide is nearly every commit. It's not that I feel that this is some empirical evidence of quality. We all know that adding LoC means little. But when the lines of code grows a lot, I feel like I'm making progress. Just for reference, the entire LLVM Project (including clang, and some other subprojects) has 860,000 lines of code right now, and 18,000 tests. I have 18,000 lines and 140 tests. I guess this always leaves me feeling like the small fish in the pond (also that LLVM has nearly triple the number of tests that I do when accounting for codebase size).

Obviously I like to feel like my code is high quality. I don't mind making changes that reduce the LoC and I know there are plenty of good changes that decrease it and bad changes that increase it. Tests are included in my measurement so the more tests I have, the higher that value should be. But ultimately, as an entirely subjective feeling, I feel like I should be adding to the codebase's size.

I've been sitting pretty at about 17-18k for a while now. I guess it's a good thing that I've implemented many new features like inheritance without substantially increasing the size of the codebase, and since I've introduced automated testing (with many more tests to come, hopefully) the reliability is a lot higher. And now that I'm not horribly, horribly sick, I'm much more available.

What I really need to do is ensure that I spend less of my time chatting in the Lounge, shooting people in the face, flying spacecraft, or lynching people for being the Mafia, and more time working. Also job-hunting. That would be good too. Maybe I should ask Daisy to help me, she's always happy to make sure that my left hand isn't good for much.

Time to write tests for all those new features I implemented. And devise a test driver for warnings.