I already hate people who send voice messages in a world where dictation software exists. I hate whoever even thought of joking about this even more.

I hate it

but what about programmers with problems hearing? An alternative of webcam video with sign language, pantomime and subtitles is needed!

edit: OOH! Use AI to generate the sign language videos. Could be wild, considering how good AI is at drawing hands.

Imagine spending HOURS listening your colleagues comments... I quit.

Right all we are missing now is videos in comments.

I am deaf. i already struggle with keeping up with subtitles on tutorial videos of some obscure stuff that has little to no docs. Kindly return this idea to a void function instead and try not to catch the erroneous thread with these satanic proposals.

Looking at how good textual documentation works, it would probably be a 3s long note reading out the method name

I would enable this in my project so I can ban any contributor who submits an MR with it

All my comments would just be Rick Astley

Ah yes, source code files that aren't plain text and can only be opened by certain editors, exactly what the software industry needs

In reality, an editor could have speech-to-text and it would transcribe the spoken comment into a comment with some tag to indicate it was a spoken comment. Then when an editor encounters such a comment, it would read it out using text-to-speech. For example

// transcript: Holy fuck what is wrong with this stupid code‽ for fucks sake! *inaudible* I've spent hours on this. I'm going to... nevermind it was a semicolon. Undo comment. Remove comment. Cancel comment.

The rant comment will be forever changed.

And dare I say improved.

You are too dangerous to be kept alive.

If I ever encountered a voice comment in code I would immediately track that motherfucker down and do terrible things to them

why use a resource folder for it, when you can embed a base64 encoding directly into the source file?

I also like when people respond to my texts with voice memos

Fantastic idea but I don't think it goes far enough. Why stop at comments? I want to be able to write whole functions and classes like that!

Yes please, I would love not being able to scan comments to see if they are relevant to what I'm trying to do

If this existed, I would be summoned by HR after performing my first code review.

Ban this person from computers forever.

While investigating an uncovered node in some aviation datalink software, I discovered a 15 year old comment from 1993 along the lines of, "this function never runs, I'll fix it later." I wish will all my heart I could have heard their voice. Even if just for a moment.

I hope this is a joke and not intended to be real.

inb4 zoomers unironically want this

Do you start recording before or after you rage with expletives?

Or Base64 inside the comment text

I adore the energy behind these comments.