# Why so little code comment in Discourse Codebase? (Github)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-little-code-comment-in-discourse-codebase-github/85710>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [April 19, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-little-code-comment-in-discourse-codebase-github/85710 "2018-04-19T10:37:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![1c7](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/1c7/32/94822_2.png) [@1c7](https://meta.discourse.org/u/1c7)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-little-code-comment-in-discourse-codebase-github/85710/1 "2018-04-19T10:37:35Z")

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[https://github.com/discourse/discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse)

### Background

I was trying to customize Discourse.  
(deep customization, theme/plugin is not enough, not a simple facelift change(logo, color, image etc))

I `git clone ` to my laptop and start reading the code.  
(I am Ruby on Rails dev & newbie Ember.js dev)

### Question

1. Why there are so little code comment in codebase?  
(controller / model / view / etc, both Rails and Ember)

I get the phrase “good code itself is comment” (or something like that)  
But why so little?

Thanks.

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