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I am God's greatest programmer (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In my experience refactoring lots and lots of crappy code left by devs long gone, a dev who can write useful comments is by and large a dev who can write code clean and simple enough not to need them. If the code doesn't have informative names and clear separation of concern, chances are a comment won't help because the dev didn't really know what they did that worked in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Generally, yes. However I have been known to document exactly why I'm doing something incredibly stupid - because it's required but a stupid third party library which, despite being awful, is still better than implementing it myself as a refactor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

a dev who can write useful comments is by and large a dev who can write code clean and simple enough not to need them.

my boss is great in this regard and also always has to keep reminding us to write unit tests 😅