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Re:Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome by Zelphyr on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @02:50PM (#7739896)
What kind of useful metric could variable names and lines of code possibly provide?
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Re:Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome by ulisesrmzroche on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @03:08PM (#7739999)
Frameworks decrease LOC, which drastically improve readability. Any shorthand variables decrease readability. Frameworks are great at enforcing these rules.

If your average LOC is ever more than 200 lines or so, you've got a messy app.

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