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Having worked with software engineers for the last 10years I can confirm, most don’t like documentation. At least 80% dont


Which is a funny statement as almost all devs like to have documentation.


If I'm simply consuming a library, I find most real-world documentation to be pretty superfluous. A full working example is usually enough to understand how things fit together.

If I'm working on a library, design docs and commented code is nice though.




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