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by aphexairlines 1369 days ago
Comments explain why the code is there. That's different from translating code into English.
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Supermancho 1369 days ago
> That's different from translating code into English.

That's not what this "TLDR plugin" does, because there is no magical translation. You put whatever you want in there. I think this is obvious.

Ironically, you basically rephrased the title, while objecting to it's use?

> Comments explain why the code is there

> TLDR explains what a piece of code does

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xboxnolifes 1369 days ago
that's their point, and why they don't think it's useful.
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Supermancho 1369 days ago
> X does something that is commonly done, in a different way than Y. This means X is useless

It's still not clear how this explanation is supposed to be sufficient to explain the conclusion.

If a comment is collapsed in an IDE and you spend 1 click/key combo to expand it, versus some key combination to pull up the TLDR, the difference is what?

Comments being embedded IN code could be a thing of the past. No PR necessary to maintain them. Sounds like an improvement to me.

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