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K0nserv on Dec 26, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cognitive load is what matters

Comments are decent but flawed. Being a type proponent I think the best strategy is lifting business requirements into the type system, encoding the invariants in a way that the compiler can check.

larsrc on Dec 26, 2024 [–]

Comments should describe what the type system can't. Connect, pitfalls, workarounds for bugs in other code, etc.

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