A work colleague (let’s call him Owen as that’s his name) asked me the other day “I dont understand the problem space scc et al solve. If you wanted to write a short post, i’d read and share the hell out of it. Basically, it seems like a heap of people can see the need for it, and I’m trying to understand it myself” Owen is one of the more switched on people I know. As such if he is asking whats the point of tools such as scc, tokei, sloccount, cloc, loc and gocloc then I suspect ...