After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. I used to comment sparingly. What made me change was a combination of reading the SQLite and Redis codebases and inheriting two biggish projects (one Rails, and one JS) which had no comments.
Reading through code that looks like this[0] is so much nicer than reading through code that looks like this[1].
[0] https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/9711a7575036f0d3
[1] https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/b93c1661d689c8b7d...
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MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database.
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Observed mentions: 2017-04-10 02:00:22 UTC to 2026-01-31 19:01:27 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
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Copyright (c) 2000, 2026, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
This is a release of MySQL, an SQL database server.
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This distribution may include materials developed by third parties.
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MySQL is brought to you by the MySQL team at Oracle.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
2 sources> An optimization was chosen to limit utf8 to 3 bytes
You chose not to define the UNICODE_32BIT macro that was in the original source from 2002?
* https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/55e0a9cb01af4b0...
In In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (2016)