News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago. Parent comment

Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by somehnguy on Monday December 30, 2019 @12:06AM (#21910947)
That may work but I find those comments tend to get lost over time. TODO/XXX/FIXME support are built into IntelliJ which makes stuff like that super easy to find. If some random dev looks and decides its low quality because of those words...well I don't care because its a silly metric to judge on.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by TeMPOraL on Monday December 30, 2019 @02:15AM (#21911432)
And even if they aren't supported by default in your IDE/editor, they're perfect hooks for recursive grep. A simple

  grep -rn TODO *
and you see a nice list of all of them, with files and lines.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by kanox on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:01AM (#21911908)
> those comments tend to get lost over time

That's fine, they don't need to be tracked. There are other systems for issues that need tracking.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from o... by delusional on Monday December 30, 2019 @02:38AM (#21911522)
Intellj also supports custom "patterns".

"Intellj supports it" is a pretty meaningless argument anyway.

[ Parent | on HN ]