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Truth. But documentation accelerates this. You are correct most documentation is lackluster.
I very much appreciate good docs -
dmonkey23143yUhmmm maybe starting with docs? At least you know what the duck the thingie is supposed to do?
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atheist92373y@dmonkey I dunno, by the time I've found something via Google, I probably know what it's *meant* to do, docs don't tell me what it *actually* does.
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lotd79283yMore often than not, you stumble across small hidden gems and easter eggs that way as well..
Sometimes you do end up writing code around an API that was never documented and just gets changed without any prior notice tho.
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Read source code and unit tests. Don’t bother documentation cause it’s outdated. Dig into the core, look where data goes in and where it gets out. Everything else is just a wrapper.
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