You sound like the guy who writes documentation in the form of:
// functionA = is function that does A
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marcos@lemmy.world 1 year agoYeah, the knowledge that 6 hours of debugging can save you from 10 long and extenuating minutes of reading the documentation. That one you can only get by fixing the problem.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
acwern@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Docs can only really help you if your problem is “I have used X from the library Y, yet I do not understand the baseline definition of X sufficiently and this is causing issues”. A lot of problems in practice are much more fundamental than that