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I did a bit of research, but I don't think this has been asked elsewhere.
I added a comment to this answer, and the formatting broke. The "code" part consisted of multiple backslashes: \ -> \\\, \\.
Interestingly, the formatting doesn't seem to be broken in the questions/answers. There is a comment right below this question to show the issue.
This is another example of why we need preview for comments.
The backslash is escaping your backticks, so the code formatting isn't ending where you expect it to. You can use double backticks instead. So instead of:
`\` -> `\\\`, [...] `\\`
You want this:
``\`` -> ``\\\``, [...] ``\\``
For more information see How do I format a backslash as code with backticks in comments? and How do I escape a backtick in Markdown?
\` doesn't seem to escape backticks there. And, as a matter of fact, double backticks don't seem to work in comments.
` ->\\`, `\`\`is considered as an escaped backtick. If so,\` ->\\\`, `\\` Should render correctly, I think (edit: does not seem to be the case). It remains that it is inconsistent with the way code blocks are parsed in questions/answers\->\\\,\\,\\ ` `` gets rendered as ` \ ` -> ` \\\,\\ ` (and it can't figure how to render the first part properly either).