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minus-squarebleistift2@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoHot take: Even these ‘useless’ comments help, since they relieve you of the burden of reading the code itself, even if it’s trivial. One line of English is easier to parse than one line of trivial code.
minus-squaresznio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoYep. But reading one outdated line of English is worse than reading 5 lines of code and seeing the true picture.
minus-squarebleistift2@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoI don’t feel like “ditch comments” is the right solution to “we {forget, don’t care enough} to update comments”.
Hot take: Even these ‘useless’ comments help, since they relieve you of the burden of reading the code itself, even if it’s trivial. One line of English is easier to parse than one line of trivial code.
Yep.
But reading one outdated line of English is worse than reading 5 lines of code and seeing the true picture.
I don’t feel like “ditch comments” is the right solution to “we {forget, don’t care enough} to update comments”.