Comment by ohdeargodno

1 day ago

Uh... Totaling +1000 at the end of a work week is an easy thing to do, especially if working on a new/evolving product.

Now extrapolate. That’s maybe 50k a year assuming some PTO.

10 years would make 500k and you just cross a million at 20.

So that would have to be 20 years straight of that style of working and you’re still not into plural millions until 40 years.

If someone actually produced multiple millions of lines in 25 years, it would have to be a side effect of some extremely verbose language where trivial changes take up many lines (maybe Java).