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this is the start of everything falling apart, i can feel it (media.fedia.io)

submitted 15 hours ago by QuantumEraser@fedia.io to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] apparia@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The OP graph is just absolute count on the y axis, so I also assumed it was basically measuring LoC, but looking at this chart, the em-dashes do appear to be definitely more of a modern phenomenon compared to raw LoC:

Maybe some policy/tooling change around 2014? A guess is perhaps something to do with allowing UTF-8 in source files, but that's a pretty long shot.

[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Looking at that, the lines of code cannot really be the full story. M-dash count really just appears to rise from 2014 onwards.