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> I found a tutorial, the commands did not work That’s hardly unique to Javascript. Back before the internet even existed I’d seen out of date make files whic
by mr_toad 8y ago
> I found a tutorial, the commands did not work
That’s hardly unique to Javascript. Back before the internet even existed I’d seen out of date make files which did nothing but spit out linker errors due to API changes in libraries.
- EduardoBautista 8y agoBut it is way more common in JS. It got to the point that I do not trust tutorials that are not “official”.
- lostapathy 8y agoHonestly, this is even a problem in "official" tutorials. I set out to learn some basic node a while back. The official docs then were out of date enough to not work to install node (nor were they off a trivial amount). I finally figured it out and PR'd a doc fix, but you shouldn't have to do that to try out a platform.
- int_19h 8y agoJS has a lot more churn than pretty much any other mainstream language or ecosystem.
- lostapathy 8y agoWhat's unique to JS is how short the shelf life of documentation is compared to the past. 15 years ago if you found a tutorial and it didn't work, it meant it was either many years old or you could install one java (etc) version prior and it'd work again. It seems like a lot of JS docs go obsolete within months if not weeks.