Developer Measures ULOC Uniqueness Across Languages

The author evaluated scc's Unique Lines of Code (ULOC) metric across 3,418 top GitHub repositories by language, using a Python script with shallow git clones to build a 472 MB SQLite database containing 2,703,656 file records and about 410,529,727 code lines. Initial analysis showed wide language variance in uniqueness—Shell about 76% highest and Lua about 39% lowest—while per-repository averaging reduced monorepo and size biases.