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Hi Ivan! From my exprience there are multiple reasons - The main one: I've learned tons from reading code. The ability to jump into code that does X to see how
by AugustoCAS 3y ago
Hi Ivan!
From my exprience there are multiple reasons
- The main one: I've learned tons from reading code. The ability to jump into code that does X to see how it's implemented is worth a lot to me. This is something I love about the jvm ecosystem which is unfortunately not present in many other languages.
- Many libraries/frameworks (Spring Data comes to mind) provide very leaky abstractions. Understanding how the underlying technology is used can make a big difference.
- Address questions when the documentation is not clear enough.
- And last: to discover bugs in libraries. This is not common, but it happens.
- ivan_gammel 3y agoMy question is rather why it seems to be so difficult? The value of learning from the source code is indeed great and in modern IDEs it is easily accessible. Ever since annotations were added to Java, I've had no problem figuring out how some frameworks use them.