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On the one hand you're right, size can be of arbitrary value. Saying "No external libs!" and then using (presumably) several parts of the standard lib kinda cancels each other out.

But it seems like a great language for making GUIs (possibly), and this seems an excellent demonstration of that, so it has plenty of merit.

I do relate to the over use of "n in x LOC!" posts. Like we get it list comprehensions are cool.

It's true that there are impressive one-line JS apps.

That doesn't mean that this is nothing.

Ah, I sense sarcasm.

NB. There's nothing stopping this Red code being just one line. All the newlines are for readability only :)

Care to share any examples?

https://fb.me/react-15.2.0.min.js

Well, you're technically correct, but minified JS is kindof cheating, right? I mean, I've written multi megabyte C# programs that I could minify to just a single line, but it wouldn't be right.

I think that's their point.

This code neither does anything (it's a library) nor does it fit the criteria for "LOC" given in the article: minified code formatted into ≤82 characters per line.

http://xem.github.io/miniCodeEditor