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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] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

me when first starting out at a job commenting everything I can
VS
me a couple years in completely lost because I never updated the comments and now none of them make any sense whatsoever

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Commenting well is a highly advanced skill. I generally prefer no comments on code since it's less likely to confuse people and I'll merrily purge auto-doc comments and anything like

// getId() returns an id

That comment has negative value.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Comments should only be used to describe stuff that’s otherwise difficult to convey with code.

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

Yeah. Most of the time I use comments in my algorithms, as they often use some weird optimized black magic which are difficult to understand without comments.