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Is it a bad practice to replace compiler warnings with a bunch of TODO notes?

People > Companies ❤️ - programming.dev [Unofficial] March 1, 2026
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submitted by SpiderUnderUrBed to programming 7 points | 6 comments I am using rust, but this applies to many other languages, I get warnings like, dead code, unused variables, and etc, and while I remove most of them, there are some im not sure of, I like running my program and there being 0 warnings, or 0 warnings as i scroll down my code, so for things im unsure of, i mark them so the compiler doesn’t put warnings there. I also add comments, starting with TODO:, it has some information about what to think about when i revisit it, also the todo’s gets highlighed in my IDE with my extension, but is this bad practice?

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