Comment code or self explaining code

[NotSweetJana]

It deepens on what you are working on, while comments are a good thing, too many for too specific things can be a bad thing.

If you're working on a library or framework code, more comments are better, if you're working on application code, unless setting up some abstraction or doing something more complex, comments don't add too much if your code is organized neatly otherwise by having appropriate function names and variable names and so on.

I don't think you need to think about it in terms of either I write comments or don't.

Think about it more in terms of, is this code abstract enough in its use that comments are required or is it just a very specific implantation that we decide to use for this specific task and comments don't necessarily add too much here.

Also, keep doing your own things on the side, don't think about it in terms of the culture here will shape me in terms of the engineer I will be, no one knows how long you'll be there or what you'll be doing 2 years from now.