Darian Moody

One thing I'd love to see in editors is some indication of a comment's age related to the surrounding code.

More often than not, when a comment doesn't align with what surrounds it is due to it predating the code and it never having been updated.

Anyone seen anything like this?

Mar 6, 2023 at 11:22amElk
Show threadDarian MoodyMar 6, 2023
Thanks to a prod from @adamchainz, I discovered GitLens on VSCode has the ability to opt-in a display of relative age of code throughout the file as a heatmap bar down the left-hand side. 🎉
Show threadAdam Johnson  Mar 6, 2023
@djm nice. Now I need to look for a sublime version…
Show threadAdam Johnson  Mar 6, 2023
@djm Git blame can dim code by age, I would guess some editors have that capability too. I have also seen plugins that show blame info when your cursor is on the line. Showing this for comments specifically would indeed be useful.
Show threadDarian MoodyMar 6, 2023
@adamchainz Bingo! GitLens on VSCode has this feature but it's opt-in. Ty!