Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

how have you figured out Boeing's super secret performance metrics?!?

@JsonBoa are you an Airbus kind of guy?

This quote is by Bill Gates.
It’s one of my favorites.

yet, it's not entirely useless.

With LoC you can roughly gauge, how large a codebase is. Similar how you roughly can get a picture of how big an aricraft ist, by it's weight.

But yeah, you shouldn't do anything else with it.