They started measuring deleted and added lines of code as a metric for productivity at my company. I have heard it's been done in other companies among friends... WHO THE FUCK IS PUSHING FOR THIS!?
Like WHY EVEN DO THAT USELESS SHIT???

Delete the whole system and ask for a promotion

@TeachMeCode GOSH THANKS!

Just toss in a few jQuery versions, maybe React, etc.

Offload some features to a library and include it in /vendor. Each new feature requires a version bump and therefore replacing all of the files. Huge +/- farm right there.

DO YOU WORK IN THE 80s?

This is why people do this:

let a = 1

let b = 2

let c = a * b

let d = c + 2

return d

Only idiots who haven’t written a single line of code in their entire life can come up with such nonsense.

This is a blessing, what are you talking about. Instead of just do const c = 1.

You can do

const sharp = c + sharpenned - 69

const sharpened = c + sharp

const sharp = c => c + sharpened(c) + sharp

const Csharp = sharp(c) - sharpened

We are cataloging # lines of code just for own morbid curiosity (only the C# cs files in the project directory). Kind of a "wow, that's a big project", but nothing we're measuring or anything like that. Nobody cares.

When our VP (who does not write code) saw the value in our dashboard (just the project, # lines, and total at the end), he was excited and wanted my boss to create departmental measures.

He said "Sure we'll do that". Later he said to me (when I asked the obvious) "No, we're not doing that. Joe will forget about lines-of-code measure by the next quarterly meeting."

That was over a year ago, guess what? Subject never came back up.

@Lensflare so meaaaan