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1 day agoI think we’re all just dogshit but think we’re better than the next person, it’s like driving. I’m a “comment if there’s no way to make it readable” kinda guy, I work with some “comment and don’t bother to make it readable because there’s comments” people. We all suck. I probably forget to comment on unreadable places sometimes, or overestimate readability he either doesn’t update comments so they’re out of date or the code is so gibberish that a comment didn’t help.
Ideally I guess you comment AND make it readable AND make sure the comments are up to date, but who do you think we are? Superman? And what’s the right level of commenting anyway? Probably depends on who is reading them.
Yeah, honestly overly splitting things up is worse sometimes, that’s how you end up in Java land. Any time you want to grok a specific function you end up down 30 abstracted code paths. Essentially need a compiler to unroll it all to actually see what it’s doing.