[herbst]

no, that rarely happens. There are plugins where you can run git blame within your text editor by marking text. It is like you have a comment but without making the code more messy as it only shows with a "click".

Another point is that people tend to write awful comments anyway.

[wruza]

>Another point is that people tend to write awful comments anyway.

This. When we talk about stellar teams with stellar writers both in programming language and english, it seems nice to throw comment here and there. But when I look at what we do at work, I just... want to s{//.+$}{}, because comments there are A) misleading, B) senseless, C) grammatically awful, D) obsolete. Today almost everyone can be a programmer, but only few know how to explain things in short text at right place. You have to be writer to do that.

The best way to test a comment is to turn it into code and test it as code. Or, in more modern way, make a neural network that parses comments and check if these apply.