I think it'd be awesome if every comment of a rant would begin with a //

Why?

Yes, why?

@iAmNaN @ScribeOfGoD because for all programming languages, // indicates a comment. Python, SML, HTML and such do not exist/are not programming languages

@AngryDev what about basic? Assembly? Smalltalk?

@Krokoklemme covered under "and such"

@Krokoklemme yeah right and what about python? Or even more importantly, what about .vimrc command language?
@AngryDev python is a heck of a pl

@AngryDev I'd love to hear your definition of a programming language then

@Krokoklemme itsajoke.jpg

@AngryDev hmmm... I guess my sleep deprivation slowly kicks in, so I didn't notice it ^^'

Still don't see why we need to waste space with unneeded characters

Or maybe @rem ?

Hehe

/*
What about
multiline comments?
*/

<!-- yolo -->

What about the
/*
Multilines
*\
"""
Python multilines (when not a docstring, it's just ignored)
"""
<!-- Popular in HTML -->
# Popular in Python
! Configuration comments
[Configuration comments]
' Config comment
; Assembly
-- Ada
(*
Apple Script
*)
// And so on

// Not to forget:
C Fortran
{-
Haskell
-}

Before and after the code block, leavong a blank line

% MATLAB
= The old variant for Perl I think
=begin
Ruby
=end

// And so on, // is just used by some of the more popular languages.