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Discussion on: 6 ways minimalism can help you write clean code

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Tony Ross

Disagree about commented code; but there's a time and a place for it. If you have the capability to minify your code, then comments have no place. However, in the overall readability/understandability of a large system, and to assist with debugging, comments are invaluable.

Great article though.

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Paula Santamaría

I may have explained myself poorly on that point. I meant that commented-out code has no value. I'm in favor of comments that explain the purpose of code, as long as they add additional value.

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Tony Ross

Ah, my mis-understanding Paula. Totally agree with you then.

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Ben Sinclair

Commented-out code may sometimes - very rarely - have value, but usually as a warning not to do something. Like in a function document string, something saying "this used to be done like so, but there's a gotcha, so don't refactor it back".