From another perspective: Whilst I am likely to spend far more time documenting than coding in my work, when I build something at home to fix a problem just for

From another perspective: Whilst I am likely to spend far more time documenting than coding in my work, when I build something at home to fix a problem just for me I'm far less likely because it's for me. In the case of this particular developer, it isn't just for themselves, but also in a different language, and they've done their best just to reflect an existing API. They've asked for pull requests. I can understand not wanting to do the enormous amount of work of translating an API that is already pretty-much documented when I won't really see any return at all.