How do such people even breathe???

Does somebody here know whether comments of this kind can be generated by an IDE?
I have to assume they used PhpStorm due to some hints in some files.

i would say any of the jetbrains IDEs, that supports HTML type stuff can do that.
But actually even editors like Atom with Plugins can do that nowadays too.

Looks like PHP being treated as plain HTML.

@kamen more like "let's add html comments, oh damn php code let's add an empty html comment and comment the php stuff without removing the php tags"

They could have just use html comments and comment out the php stuff like all other lines but why make it easy ?

I seen this before, where ya work?

@karma Mostly I work at my desk, sometimes in the train or at a bar. 😉
(in CH)

@thebiochemic To some extent it sounds like a smart feature, but man is this shit ugly...

@PonySlaystation agreed, but you can argue that if you dont care enough about it, then why bother commenting it out with actual symbols, instead of just.. you know.. press a key combo.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised you guys wouldn’t get it. This is an ancient big boss coding technique that has been used in top projects for the past 20 years. With enough mentorship your brains might be able to fathom it. Wish I had a senior such as this on my team.

You should tag this shit with NSFW.

WHY

@PonySlaystation I hope it's not the shit I worked on 4y prior haha

@karma Did you work in a company in CH with a name startig with "in"? 😅

@PonySlaystation nope