I have never noticed a performance increase or decrease from, let's say, 100 lines of code. The simple fact is that it's more the process you utilize to arrive at the final product than the number ...

Something similar happened in March 2016, when the author of the left-pad JavaScript library (another project amounting to 17 lines of code) decided to unpublish the library without warning ...

A military drone has 3.5 million lines of code inside. That’s roughly three times as many as we find in bacteria, meaning that mankind has, at least by one metric, constructed semi-autonomous ...