Good questions, and no. Anecdotally, talking to other Grails developers - ones who have switched from Java - they all acknowledge that they write fewer - often far fewer - lines of code.
I agree on the point that people may just be bad estimators, but I was assuming at least some of them have done approximate LOC counts on their own code from time to time to get estimates. I do.
I agree on the point that people may just be bad estimators, but I was assuming at least some of them have done approximate LOC counts on their own code from time to time to get estimates. I do.