If you want a gentle introduction, check out [mgechev’s] language that resides in 25 lines of Javascript. ... With the comments — and they are welcome — it is more like 140 lines of code.

I have never noticed a performance increase or decrease from, let's say, 100 lines of code. The simple fact is that it's more the process you utilize to arrive at the final product than the number ...

Something similar happened in March 2016, when the author of the left-pad JavaScript library (another project amounting to 17 lines of code) decided to unpublish the library without warning ...