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Comments are critical at creating beginners to the code base, something rarely the expert class think about accelerating. For my code? I agree Code for others
by j45 4y ago
Comments are critical at creating beginners to the code base, something rarely the expert class think about accelerating.
For my code? I agree
Code for others to participate in? The simplest possible way for the greatest number of developers to understand as quickly as possible. Not about my best practice or preference but for the greater good.
Coding standards for the elite devs are only so effective at growing that growing quick enough.
- layer8 4y agoThe expert will be helped as well when coming back to the code after a few months.
- j45 4y ago100%. Comments are a critical way to more quickly re-grok the mental model of what's going on for your future self as well. I think there was a post in the past few weeks about a single developer who maintained hundreds of his own tools, and for him it came down to process and documentation first so it was easy to come back to months or years later.