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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Code should absolutely speak for itself. But the occasional comment is still good to explain the 'why' of the code when the why isn't very obvious, often due to a niche requirement. Also any time you have to break out a hack, that needs comments up the ass, what was the bug, what URL did you find the fix at, why does this hack work, etc etc. It's very satisfying to go back and remove those hacks after they are no longer needed, often because the underlying technology fixed the bug that had to be hacked around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, hence me mentioning the arcane code nobody knows what it does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It definitely feels great when I get to remove the

//hack abc due to bug in library xyz version 1.4.5, issue tracker says it's fixed in 1.5.0. - link