All opinions welcome! :) But anyway, my point was that the "garbage code" is held to much higher standards as an accurate representation of reality than any comments are. They can still add useful additional context, though. I didn't want to suggest that they didn't.https://twitter.com/bcdannyboy/status/1095685538638635009 …
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I use comments to explain the rationale behind the code, but mostly to apologize to the maintainer
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//TODO: figure a better way to do this
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Take it for what it's worth but I'm at my best and most honest when writing literate programs. Bug fixes and upgrades have been easy coming back to it months later even without types. But it scales very poorly to team efforts.
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