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points by trvz 3 days ago | 0 comments
Slightly disappointing: he had to put 264 lines of code across 5 files.

I, right now in 2026 and at least one decade later, get at most 59 lines of code at once in my primary editor (Panic's Nova) on a 27" monitor.

That is almost the same ratio.

[–] jodrellblank 3 days ago
I don't know if you know the reference, but his screenful of code looked like this: https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/iojATW.htm

(with a post explaining it here: https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2025-06-06-readable-code-is-u... )

It's stylistically denser than a typical 59 lines of code, then macro-densified and 'golfed' further.

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