- Code reviews prior to acceptance of commits (Facebook does this)
- Refactoring crap that manages to get through
- Removing features
- Higher-order languages with less code
- Removal of tech debt
- More eyeballs
- Wiser engineers
- Dedicating more time to better engineering
- Coding guidelines that optimize for straightforward code while not being so strict as to hinder strategic exceptions
- Negative LoC as a KPI
- Code reviews prior to acceptance of commits (Facebook does this)
- Refactoring crap that manages to get through
- Removing features
- Higher-order languages with less code
- Removal of tech debt
- More eyeballs
- Wiser engineers
- Dedicating more time to better engineering
- Coding guidelines that optimize for straightforward code while not being so strict as to hinder strategic exceptions
- Negative LoC as a KPI