What is the point of comments in code? Most teams recommend the use of a default strategy of commenting every function method and file, this tends to lead to redundant and useless comments that add only to the work of coding without adding and value in terms of improving the readability of the code, so what is the point? What is the real role of comments in good code? How do we use them to improve the quality of our code and what’s the difference between bad code comments and useful ones?

In this episode Dave Farley, author of best selling books “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” explores the typical mistakes people make in code comments, how to use them more effectively, and how focusing on reducing comments can improve the quality of your code.



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