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Thanks, I updated my comment to say “are often longer” because that’s what I see in practice.

To your point, there are some cases where a short description is sufficient and may have equal or less lines than code (frequently with helper functions utilizing well known packages).

In either case, we’re entering a new era of “compilers” (transpilers?), where they aren’t always correct/performant yet, but the change in tides is clear.



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