> how do you comment out a region with comments inside?
s/^/\/\//
Or just Ctrl+/ in some IDEs.
That’s also better than multiline comments because it provides indentation levels, and because it’s visible on every line that you’re inside a comment (and no need to place artificial “*”s at the start of in-comment lines). If I were to design a new programming language, I would only provide single-line comment syntax and relegate the multiline use case to editor support (i.e. for marking a line range and commenting it out/in).