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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.
36 4 ReplyYep.
But reading one outdated line of English is worse than reading 5 lines of code and seeing the true picture.
19 3 ReplyOr, if you're my manager, there's just one comment at the top that says "for pizza"
8 0 ReplyI don’t feel like “ditch comments” is the right solution to “we {forget, don’t care enough} to update comments”.
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Exactly! Maybe i've never seen a Pizza Box before. For you your code may be trivial. But for someone else an "open before eating" helps a lot.
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