I resisted putting comments in my languages for years. My reasoning was it was always a flaw of my code (or the language) if I couldn't express myself in typed

I resisted putting comments in my languages for years. My reasoning was it was always a flaw of my code (or the language) if I couldn't express myself in typed code. Then I realized that my languages will never be perfect, and having comments is an essential escape hatch. I was wrong and I changed my mind. Also, 99.9% of languages have comments: https://pldb.io/blog/a-language-without-comments.html https://pldb.io/blog/a-language-without-comments.html