• EnderMB@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Comments don’t describe the code. They describe the decision to use this business logic.

    If you stick to good engineering practices, like small methods/functions, decoupling, and having testable code, you don’t often need many comments to show what your code does. I always recommend a method signature, though, because you can save a few seconds by just saying that a block of code does, rather than me needing to read exactly how you turned one dict into another dict…