Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code
by baby on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:03PM
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Imo comments are like formatting. If you don’t enforce it in CI it’s going to be bad
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Re:Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code
by ajross on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:26PM
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Forcing developers to write comments[1] just to get code merged seems like the best possible way to ensure those comments are lies.
[1] Which, it's important to point out since you used the term "CI", are fundamentally untestable. There's absolutely no way to ensure a comment is correct. A CI smoke test at the very least verifies code builds and doesn't break pre-existing cases. No such validation is even theoretically possible for comments.