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My experience with MSDN is one of the biggest reasons why I avoid Microsoft tools. Now you're telling me that Apple's documentation is much worse, and that depr
by sofal 17y ago
My experience with MSDN is one of the biggest reasons why I avoid Microsoft tools. Now you're telling me that Apple's documentation is much worse, and that depresses me.
- potatolicious 17y agoThe problem with straight-up documentation is that much of it is unreadable technobabble that makes no sense until you, say, throw in a diagram or a chunk of sample code. Then you go "oohhhhhh" and are enlightened. Apple's documentation is "complete" insofar as all the major bits are written down somewhere, but it's very opaque and hard to read. Their ridiculous lack of diagrams, visualizations, and sample code also makes your life much more difficult than it must be. In fact, I do not think there's ANY sample code anywhere that isn't a "sample project". As in, when Apple does decide to grace your presence with sample code, it's a large, integrated thing that really doesn't help you learn a specific API or component.