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I am God's greatest programmer (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by bigboismith@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] platypode@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

In my experience refactoring lots and lots of crappy code left by devs long gone, a dev who can write useful comments is by and large a dev who can write code clean and simple enough not to need them. If the code doesn't have informative names and clear separation of concern, chances are a comment won't help because the dev didn't really know what they did that worked in the first place.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago

Generally, yes. However I have been known to document exactly why I'm doing something incredibly stupid - because it's required but a stupid third party library which, despite being awful, is still better than implementing it myself as a refactor.