It's not an alternative, you can't obviate the need for comments with code. What you're supposed to do is write the code as clearly as possible and then add co

It's not an alternative, you can't obviate the need for comments with code. What you're supposed to do is write the code as clearly as possible and then add comments for anything you couldn't manage to express in the code. Usually that'd be all the context around why the code is the way it is and isn't the way it isn't.