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Comments explain why the code is there. That's different from translating code into English.

• Supermancho 4y ago
  > That's different from translating code into English. That's not what this "TLDR plugin" does, because there is no magical translation. You put whatever you want in there. I think this is obvious. Ironically, you basically rephrased the title, while objecting to it's use? > Comments explain why the code is there > TLDR explains what a piece of code does
  • xboxnolifes 4y ago
    that's their point, and why they don't think it's useful.
    • Supermancho 4y ago
      > X does something that is commonly done, in a different way than Y. This means X is useless It's still not clear how this explanation is supposed to be sufficient to explain the conclusion. If a comment is collapsed in an IDE and you spend 1 click/key combo to expand it, versus some key combination to pull up the TLDR, the difference is what? Comments being embedded IN code could be a thing of the past. No PR necessary to maintain them. Sounds like an improvement to me.