I spent a decade or so working on video codecs with an international team, and there was sort of an unwritten rule that code shouldn’t have comments and variable names shouldn’t be descriptive (english language couldn’t be assumed).

Which sounds really awful, but after a while it forces you to parse the logic itself instead of being guided by possibly-out-of-date comments and variable names.

I now prefer less verbosity so that probably explains why I’m a little out of distribution on this topic.

If you looked at any of my code prior to that job, it was the polar opposite with very “pretty” code and lengthy comments everywhere.