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HOW COMPLEX IS MY CODE?

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Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Code complexity is explored beyond computational efficiency, focusing instead on the human cognitive effort needed to understand and maintain software, drawing on traditional metrics like Cyclomatic and Halstead Complexity. This perspective integrates psycholinguistic insights to highlight factors like familiarity and working memory load, treating complexity metrics as valuable tools for aggregating data, prioritizing refactoring, and communicating technical debt.