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I feel the same. I don't know where i would be as a programmer if I didn't open up the code to libraries and look around. Reading through this thread I seem t
by lacksconfidence 13y ago
I feel the same. I don't know where i would be as a programmer if I didn't open up the code to libraries and look around. Reading through this thread I seem to be the odd one out, but generally after about a week of working with a library i skip the documentation and go straight to the source. Even more so on libraries that fake their documentation by auto-generating it from doc comments. Why would i want to read documentation generated from the source when I could just read the source and comments, having twice as much info? Additionally many projects documentation only gets to the level of 'why do i want to use this' and not the nitty gritty details. Those details are in the code, and thats where I tend to look first on any project I'm familiar with.
I should add that i work with interpreted languages, so going from my code to library code is literally just a key combo that looks at the token under the cursor, finds it in ctags, and goes there. It takes a fraction of a second to be looking at the code.