The software industry doesn't agree on much. Tabs versus spaces, monoliths versus microservices, whether stand-ups are useful or performance art—pick a topic and you'll find engineers ready to die on both hills. But for about forty years, we had one consensus: lines of code is a terrible metric.Dijkstra called it "a very costly measuring unit because it encourages the writing of insipid code." Lines are spent, not produced. Bill Gates compared measuring programming progress by lines of code to m...