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		nitrogen on March 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I think you can reasonably attribute ~7% of our en... Have other people experienced this scorn for writing that Dan Luu refers to? Sort of. At a point >10 years into my career I had a junior dev ask me to remove my method comments during code review because they might become out of date some day.

lghh on March 7, 2022 | [–]

You can't type check a comment!

imron on March 7, 2022 | | [–]

Rust can and does!

lghh on March 10, 2022 | | | [–]

I actually didn't know that and am now 5x more interested in Rust. Thanks for the info!

_3u10 on March 7, 2022 | [–]

Jr devs say the darndest things

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