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Wait, is there developer documentation that isn't terrible, incomplete, and incorrect? Is that a thing that exists somewhere? I've certainly never seen any of
by thrower123 7y ago
Wait, is there developer documentation that isn't terrible, incomplete, and incorrect? Is that a thing that exists somewhere?
I've certainly never seen any of this mythical good documentation on the Microsoft side where I live, and even that is copious in comparison to the third-party stuff I've used, where major libraries have a Github readme and no more.
- simion314 7y agoFrom my experience Qt documentation was excellent, I do not know about the recent years but the Qt Widgets are stable and do not change. Other good example is Mozilla MDN.
- lsiebert 7y agoYeah, MDN is good for everything. I've had multiple separate people point out issues with w3schools at various times to me and then say "but MDN has it right."
- wbl 7y agoBSD man pages. When you didn't have the Internet you depended on good docs.
- saagarjha 7y agoApple's BSD man pages are pretty out of date, ironically…
- Crinus 7y ago> I've certainly never seen any of this mythical good documentation on the Microsoft side where I live Depends on what you're looking for. If something existed in the 90s, chances are it'll have great documentation (e.g. some people learned 3D graphics just from older DirectX documentation). The more you come closer to today, the more spotty documentation becomes.
- muststopmyths 7y agoApple iOS documentation in the beginning used to impressively good. Back in the ~2008-11 timeframe when I last looked at it seriously it was well organized, with plenty of samples and tutorials. It was a nice change from the MSDN docs, where if you knew what you were looking for you could find a link, but good luck finding coherent articles or samples. Sad to see that Apple has backslid in that department.