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> Is unused code something that your team is concerned about?

Not really, unused code is rarely a problem that businesses care about its unfortunately a user's problem.

I think businesses would care a lot more about code duplication. I can imagine a tool which uses fuzzy matching to find different levels of duplication in a codebase. It might even be an easier problem to solve.

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When you say "user's problem", is the software dev the user? Or the end user? If you are saying it is not an issue for devs, I disagree. Dead code / used code paths add to the mental load and mantainance burden. Whether this is a significant enough issue to make a paid for product is another question :-)

Well, I'm just saying it's not an issue that businesses care about.

Removing a few extra lines of unused code in a product will have basically no visible effect to the end user. And might have no measurable effect on the burden of maintenance either.

Maybe if you could find a way to measure the complexity that you're reducing, in some kind of metric, then businesses will care.

Thanks, this is exactly the sort of feedback I'm after.

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