For anything that doesn't seem entirely obvious I try to leave a comment. It could end up being helpful to me some time later, because let's face it: your code is indistinguishable from someone else's code 2 weeks after you commit it.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

For anything ~~that doesn't seem entirely obvious~~ I try...

I've come to teach myself that I have no idea what "entirely obvious" is.

This function is 3 lines long why am I boggled by it right now? I should have written a comment

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Well, over time, you accumulate some judgment about things like that. But you have some point too.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, it's honestly mostly an issue of me dipping into programming and not properly sticking to it for long enough to wrap my mind around some concepts. I heard all the warnings that "learning to program is usually one of the hardest things someone has accomplished" because of how late we learn it and all the other complications. I also, however, have heard my whole life that I learned fast and picked things up easily. Boy oh boy was one of those messages more useful than the other lol