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I've never really found docs particularly useful. Usually, I just want a few simple examples to get the gist of how something works and docs tend to be very bad
by Aunche 3y ago
I've never really found docs particularly useful. Usually, I just want a few simple examples to get the gist of how something works and docs tend to be very bad job of that. Meanwhile, the W3Schools SEO spam HN disdains tends to good job of that.
These days I use ChatGPT though.
- algorias 3y agoEh, I've had the opposite experience. If you search for anything slightly obscure in a language like Java, you'll get dozens of spam sites aimed at beginners that answer a much more basic question than the one you asked. That's because Java searches cater to a large population of people who can barely code.
- jrumbut 3y agoJava is particularly rough because there are several populations of Java users (students, Android developers, enterprise developers, among others) and their coding standards are universes apart.
- gureddio 3y agoThat and it's been around so long that the language and it's standards have been through so many iterations
- LtWorf 3y ago> These days I use ChatGPT though. I usually get non-working code snippets that pass the wrong parameters.