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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by bazmattaz on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:10PM (#33712261)
Having worked with software engineers for the last 10years I can confirm, most don’t like documentation. At least 80% dont
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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by still_grokking on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:11PM (#33713348)
Which is a funny statement as almost all devs like to have documentation.
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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by nmfisher on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:52PM (#33714570)
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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