Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code
by layer8 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:50PM
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The expert will be helped as well when coming back to the code after a few months.
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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code
by j45 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:04PM
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100%.
Comments are a critical way to more quickly re-grok the mental model of what's going on for your future self as well.
I think there was a post in the past few weeks about a single developer who maintained hundreds of his own tools, and for him it came down to process and documentation first so it was easy to come back to months or years later.