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by eyelidlessness 1344 days ago
And I have to disagree in turn. Those additional characters and lines of code are documentation, and turn gibberish into not only human-readable clarity about the code you’re reading, but a machine-traversable dependency graph as well.
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The problem is that they are forced documentation. You can't choose to skip it after you became familiar with it.
That sounds like a VSCode extension I could write on a Saturday morning but whatever.