&gt; The fact that it is 48 lines of code is almost meaningless. If the framework was a different design it could be done in 1 line of C++ code or 1 line of COBOL. Given the right library&#x2F;framework, any application can be done with 1 line of code (taking a bit of poetic licence here, but hopefully you see my point).<p>I think it&#x27;s fine to state that; are you ever going to write C++ code with zero included libraries? Probably not. If you write some string manipulation code and you boast that you did it in 10 lines are you going to count it against them that they included std::string?<p>I think saying how many lines of code it took, using the Wrangle framework, shows that it can be powerful and easy to use versus many of the libraries you end up seeing in C++.