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Generally, reading MSDN docs is a much nicer experience than reading most OSS sources, or specs, not to mention collecting workarounds from the ocean of issue t
by est 9y ago
Generally, reading MSDN docs is a much nicer experience than reading most OSS sources, or specs, not to mention collecting workarounds from the ocean of issue tracker comments.
However I do agree OSS is important and great, especially when times that you do need to debug & trace into source code.
Disclaimer: I have't developed around M$ platform for 10+ years now, not sure if the situation has changed
- owebmaster 9y agoThe situation sure changed a lot. I'd blindly disagree if you say that Windows Server (or azure) development has more and better docs than Linux. And MSDN platform performs very poorly imo compared with "comparable" OSS platforms like Github, Linux development, GNU development.
- killercup 9y agoThat was actually specific to the IE 5.5 feature set and that era's Microsoft in general. Microsoft has been doing some amazing stuff in the last years, with many of them being open source and community-driven.
- zer00eyz 9y ago> Generally, reading MSDN docs is a much nicer experience than reading most OSS sources, or specs, not to mention collecting workarounds from the ocean of issue tracker comments. This is a big part of what helped PHP take off in my mind. The documentation was fantastic! In the early 2000's reading php docs online was going to give you tons of clues and hints if you bothered to look at them. EDIT: just for laughs I went and looked at the PHP manual. It still has some of the 13 year old references in there. That might be good or bad. I haven't spent much time with PHP in the last 3 years so YMMV. No one values good documentation as much as they should.