4 ms·
While true, it would be reasonable to expect to have one single documentation that is sufficient, and not to have to resort to searching aka googling.
by lysium 6y ago
While true, it would be reasonable to expect to have one single documentation that is sufficient, and not to have to resort to searching aka googling.
- a_lieb 6y agoFor me it's simply a matter of convenience of searching; even pages with great and comprehensive docs can be hard to search. And the average is so poor that I often don't even bother to check if a particular project actually has a good search feature. If my search takes me to the actual doc page, (and it's good) then all the better!
- niklasd 6y agoFor me it is often a question of what I am looking for. If I quickly need to know how to get the last item of a list in yet-another-language, Stack Overflow will provide me an answer in about 2 seconds. The documentation will certainly provide the answer too, but I'll need to look at several places etc., since the format is just not optimized to answer exactly this question fast.