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Hot tip: any "developer productivity" tool that measures Lines of Code per developer is almost certainly absolute garbage 🗑️

Gavin Campbell

@matthewskelton

Maybe 10 years ago I was on a project where they hired an external consultancy to count Function Points (remember them?)

Unfortunately, counting Function Points turned out to be a bit hard.

Fortunately, they had a table of average LoC/Function Point for a bunch of different programming languages, so all they needed was a count of the changed lines in the release.

We had a few minutes warning of this exercise so we used the time to append a space to every line in the repo.

@gcdotdev @matthewskelton I've been lucky enough to have had the opportunity, multiple times, to mass reformat code bases. My measured productivity was that high I didn't have to work anymore the rest of the year and still be a top performer.

@matthewskelton @gcdotdev Tabs, so that everybody can pick the indenting depth they are comfortable with.