• bleistift2@feddit.de
    364·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • sznio@lemmy.world
      193·
      2 years ago

      Yep.

      But reading one outdated line of English is worse than reading 5 lines of code and seeing the true picture.

      • pizzaboi@lemm.ee
        8·
        2 years ago

        Or, if you’re my manager, there’s just one comment at the top that says “for pizza”

      • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        I don’t feel like “ditch comments” is the right solution to “we {forget, don’t care enough} to update comments”.

    • Rumo@feddit.de
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.