How many lines of code were you able to reduce?

Question

Have you ever achieved a huge code reduction? If so, how many lines of code were you able to reduce? What kind of project was it? And what programming language did you use originally and after to rebuild it? ☺

I read Linkedin was able to reduce its core mobile services code from 60,000 lines (using Ruby) to only 2,000 (using NodeJS). You can read more about it here: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2567673

Answer 1

Once I made a Ruby dice, It was about 90% original size, Why did I make it complex ಥ_ಥ

EDIT: Oh wait my name.

Answer 2

@Kamran it is an awesome and sweet short code 🙌👏 My math teacher wasn't so pleased when I found other (shorter) ways, haha. Truth is, there's always room for improvement :) Congrats and thanks a lot for sharing, keep those codes coming 😊!

Answer 3

@Paola MB Thanks, :D But I was trained to put my codes into shorter functional ones :D

Answer 4

@C0MPL3X yeah 🙌totally support that👌You serve as a great example then 😊

Answer 5

@1of3 & @C0MPL3X hahaha wooow 👏 I see dices are a little complicated, nicely done both of you 👌

Answer 6

@Paola MB Thanks :D

Answer 7

I am a beginner in coding. I am studying C++ now and I have only written a couple of codes.

https://code.sololearn.com/c79X9vXZIG5R/?ref=app

This is one of them. It was the project for educational purpose. The teacher(I'm studying at the university☺) wrote the original code to explain us how it works. There were some unnecessary lines that I could remove. And variables in the original code had certain values so the output was always the same😂 I made it possible for user to input his own. I also swapped some "if" statements to reduce the time of execution.

As a result I reduced the code for about 6-7 lines. There could not be a big reduction because the code itself is tiny😂

Answer 8

My first little project was a library for rolling dice. I later reimplemented it in Scala. Code was 30% the original size.