Developers love comments! Everyone who writes a comment thinks that they’re making a pareto improvement to the codebase, when in fact it’s quite the opposite. Comments are especially dangerous because there are many situations where it seems like a comment will help, but beware the siren’s call. I hate reading articles that make abstract arguments, so enough bloviating, let’s check out some examples. Here are some concrete uses of comments that I’ve seen a lot, and how they can be easily avoided.

Read “Beware the Siren Song of Comments” by Andrew Warner on News Genius