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As pYQAJ6Zm says: they're not invisible, but when I'm looking at code, they're easily ignored, and when I'm looking at comments, they're easily located. Using solarized dark, the background is Base 03 'bright black' (#002833) and the comments are Base02 'black' made a bit lighter (#004f62).

Comments are for holding details: I shouldn't need them to understand code, at least superficially/structurally. But they should be there if I need to drill down on something a bit, and making it so that focusing on that extra detail is easily skipped or applied makes the overall code reading much more fluid.



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