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You'd be surprised as to how many people do not read the official documentation for the tools they use. They'll spend time on Google or Stack Overflow rather than a minute in the official docs—even when they're great (e.g. Rails guides).


Well, in their defense, most documentation is terrible. You get used to being able to find something in two Google searches that you couldn't find in five minutes looking through the docs.


I suppose it depends on what languages you use. The docs for C++, Java, PHP, and the man pages for C have all been very useful to me.

Python is terrible.


Shoutout to the golang docs, they're actually amazing.


True. It's something we have to improve.




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