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

The rant comment will be forever changed.

And dare I say improved.

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.

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?

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!

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

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

Or Base64 inside the comment text

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

I adore the energy behind these comments.

This is okay but only if they auto play and contain guttural screaming