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C#

Chris Smith
Chris Smith
689 Points
Posted by Chris Smith
Chris Smith
689 Points

Might be a silly comment related question

Only a few videos into C# - but if I were to essentially litter my first few coding projects with comments, will that unnecessarily increase file sizes? Or are the average file sizes nothing to really worry about? Was just a curious question I had floating in my head as I was watching the video about comments.

1 Answer

jb30
jb30
44,805 Points

If you are just developing your code, I don't think that adding comments is going to increase your file size enough to worry about. Once you want other people to download your code, then the file size can have an impact on the speed at which the code is fully downloaded, and then you might want to consider code minification.

If you are just learning the language, it's probably better to have comments to help you know what you are doing and stay organized, than to ignore language features that you don't fully understand that you otherwise might want to add comments to.

Chris Smith
Chris Smith
689 Points
Chris Smith
Chris Smith
689 Points

Thanks! That was what I was assuming. Currently learning it to start out and wanted to kind of litter my code with comments as a reference so it all makes sense to me.