I'm . Let's have a about .

There are those "YOU SHOULD NEVER WRITE COMMENTS, IF YOU NEED COMMENTS YOUR CODE SUCKS AND NEED REWRITING"

and then we have "You should comment *ALL* code *ALL* the time"

And then we have "You should write comments, if it makes sense and the code is non trivial"

Which camp are you in, and why?

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Alexander Thurow · @alexthurow
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"Comments are the names you would use for a chunk of code if you knew how to extract method. " (Arlo Belshee - twitter.com/arlobelshee/status)

#codecomments

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"Code never lies, comments sometimes do." - Ron Jeffries

#computersoftware #programming #codecomments

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Lisa · @TicklishHoneyBee
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Today in :

/* Theoretically this should be fine, in practice it may not */

#codecomments #coding

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Lisa · @TicklishHoneyBee
181 followers · 530 posts · Server mastodon.social

Today in :

/* Theoretically this should be fine, in practice it may not */

#codecomments #coding

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Wolveric Catkin · @WolvericCatkin
21 followers · 140 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

So I've been working on a macro crate in for a little while... and I wanted to ask, what do you think of my style of , of Mastodon? 😁

(I'm rather pleased with this one...)

#rust #codecomments #developers #foss #opensource #Git #github #programming #development

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JasonPunyon · @JasonPunyon
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#codecomments

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Tim Perry · @pimterry
368 followers · 1202 posts · Server toot.cafe

#codecomments

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