How bad programmers comment their code. Good programmers don't comment at all and let the code speak for itself, leaving commenting to some obscure and arcane implementation the coder left in after a week long binge on caffeine and gummy bears.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Code should absolutely speak for itself. But the occasional comment is still good to explain the 'why' of the code when the why isn't very obvious, often due to a niche requirement. Also any time you have to break out a hack, that needs comments up the ass, what was the bug, what URL did you find the fix at, why does this hack work, etc etc. It's very satisfying to go back and remove those hacks after they are no longer needed, often because the underlying technology fixed the bug that had to be hacked around.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It definitely feels great when I get to remove the

//hack abc due to bug in library xyz version 1.4.5, issue tracker says it's fixed in 1.5.0. - link

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