[bwilliams]

> comments like these

I strongly disagree specifically about comments like these throughout an active code base. A well named variable or method can act as a much better descriptor of what’s happening and doesn’t have the same maintenance cost.

I think we both agree that comments are valuable, just not the scope. Comments are valuable when you’re doing something unexpected or where the code fails to explain what’s happening.

For what it’s worth I mostly work with Ruby, JavaScript, and TypeScript which definitely color my views.