[OFFTOPIC] Comments in the source code

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org
Fri Mar 17 21:42:45 UTC 2023


On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 05:58:08PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just a food of thought that did not occur to me earlier, but if we improved on
> the way we comment our own code, it might be that we could get helping hand
> with new code from the automate side of things. Current chatbots are already
> pretty good with translating simple task in human language into the generic
> codebase, and more literate-type of patches to the code could ease our own
> development of simple routines in not too distant future...

Interesting stuff.

By which year will it be able to address the 1285 FIXMEs in our source code? :)

Scott
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