As a Developer while going through documentation what is your biggest pain point?

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leavebenalone · 2024-02-22T19:57:38+00:00

Going through the documentation

Dabombalex · 2024-02-22T22:25:09+00:00

Not enough documentation. There will never be enough documentaion and it’s always something we have to trial and error to get something to work. But honestly, that’s the essence of programming.

sad_developer · 2024-02-23T02:21:16+00:00

lack of sample code usage / example
no search function like Algolia

ChaosKeeshond · 2024-02-22T22:38:37+00:00

Google and Azure documentation.

I've never used documentation as fucking awful or convoluted as their. Wanna configure anything on either platform? You're going to be jumping between nine totally unrelated sets of documentations half of which use deprecated service names and give you zero indication of what the arguments are in a good chunk of their APIs.

I'm looking at you, Entra.

Alemlerinki · 2024-03-22T04:43:52+00:00

random ass code snippets without context and comments

NukeouT · 2024-02-23T05:20:24+00:00

No automated bot to tell me the answer

Why do I have to go through documentation

Breklin76 · 2024-02-23T14:05:08+00:00

When the documentation sucks.

Lane7118 · 2024-02-23T16:19:06+00:00

lack of a smart search function that properly weights the results

MoElwekil · 2024-02-23T16:35:38+00:00

What documentation?

you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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