6 years ago, I rewrote 30 000 lines of C++ code in 1000 lines of Ruby.<p>A year ago,  I rewrote 424 lines of Java+Spring+Hibernate in 18 lines of bash. This is less glorious, but if you compare the size of the deliverable, it&#x27;s 39Mb for the J2EE webapp against… 772 bytes for the shell script.<p>At my current job, I maintain an app with 500,000 lines of code that could easily fit in 20,000.<p>Code bloat is indeed a recurrent problem.