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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by samb1729 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:36PM (#25717862)
Looking at their commenting history, they have a habit of italicising really often, so it's not specific to this topic. It does indeed make a lot of their comments annoying to read without obviously adding any value.
Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by codetrotter on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:15PM (#25718427)
> It does indeed make a lot of their comments annoying to read without obviously adding any value

I’m going to assume that you mean that the italics don’t add value, and not their comments as a whole. I think your comment could be read either way. Anyways, even so others have since pointed out reasons why the might be used to doing so.