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Re:Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular p... by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:34AM (#24998571)
I'm mostly a C++ and Python programmer by a large margin, but I only ever visit Stackoverflow for Javascript questions or Linux distribution bugs/misfeatures.

This only represents the sad state of Javascript documentation, I think.

Re:Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular p... by cphoover on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:51AM (#24998709)
You been to MDN? their JavaScript Documentation is impeccable? What are you referring to? There are tons of JS resources available? Or are you referring to 3p libraries which vary in terms of their documentation and can be contributed by anyone?
Re:Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular p... by otabdeveloper4 on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:19PM (#25010749)
> You been to MDN?

Of course.

> ...their JavaScript Documentation is impeccable?

Well, no. MDN doesn't answer the questions everyone has: "Which browser does this work on?" "Is it okay to use this new feature?" "Why does this buggy thing do this to me?" "Is it really true that you can't do <simple thing> in CSS"?

Etc. Web standards really aren't. (And I'm not even touching the third-party library churn problem here.)

Re:Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular p... by gmadsen on Thursday November 05, 2020 @02:33PM (#25001168)
I mostly agree. I tend to ask and follow peers advice rather than what is immediately available on the web.