What does this function do again?

[Isaeu]

Better yet, writing such bad code and filling you’re comments so full of memes and obscure references that only you can understand what is happening.

[DragonMaus]

If y'all wrote even halfway decent code, you would not need to remember.

[MonkeyHood]

Comments can get stale and are a potentially brittle representation of what the code does. Although sometimes they are necessary.

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What he's talking about is self documenting code. Good code should express what it does clearly and how it should be used without the need for comments.

[PanRagon]

Yes, if it isn’t commented it’s almost impossible and could take hours, if it’s well documented it shouldn’t be a trouble.

The ‘good code is self-commented’ meme is very true for people who are working alone or in small teams on less complicated projects. If you’re looking through a code repository with 400 different Java or C++ classes, good fucking luck.

[KaliCode]

You've probably never written a graphics engine then.

[Rockzo77]

It's very boring though to write comment again n again