Ben Boyter

Ben Boyter is an independent developer whose open-source utility scc has quietly become a staple for engineers who need trustworthy code-base intelligence at machine speed. Written in Go, scc (short for “Sloc, Cloc and Code”) parses entire repositories in milliseconds, emitting line counts broken down by language, file type, and license while simultaneously running cyclomatic-complexity analysis and COCOMO cost-estimation models. The tool is commonly embedded in CI pipelines to surface growth trends, detect licensing drift, or gate deployments when complexity thresholds are breached; security auditors invoke it to inventory third-party code, and project managers export its JSON or CSV reports for budget forecasting. Because it respects .gitignore rules, skips generated artifacts, and operates without external dependencies, scc integrates cleanly into desktop scripts, containerized builds, and GitHub Actions alike, offering IDE plug-ins for on-the-fly metrics. Although the portfolio is presently limited to this single, mature CLI application, its focused feature set has earned it placement in the default package repositories of most Linux distributions and the toolbox of anyone who prefers lightweight, auditable tooling over heavier commercial suites. The software is available free of charge on get.nero.com, where it is delivered through trusted Windows package managers such as winget, always fetching the newest release and supporting unattended batch installation alongside other utilities.