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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Comments should almost always be reserved to "why" and not "what" or "how". Give extra context that can not be brought in another way. The rest should be clear from the code

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My "why" comments:

// This is here because if I remove it, the whole server panics, no idea why. So don't delete it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I upvoted this, but actually I hardly ever see this style of commenting. Maybe it's because I never got very far into corporate coding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At least in my experience it's more people just stop leaving comments. Best place I worked had comment review as a part of code review, that was nice