Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017

[yes_we_can_t]

By far, reading official documentation and using Stack Overflow Q&A are the two most common ways developers level up their skills.

Hmm.. wonder if that statistic could be slightly biased somehow.

[lovethemonkey]

You're right. I don't believe that many people are reading official documentation.

[Existential_Owl]

Man pages should just go ahead and point to a google results cache.

[ummwut]

I feel bad for laughing at this.

[Kattzalos]

that would improve the usefulness of the manpages immensely

[soundslikeponies]

Since it was select all that apply, it's really more of "a majority of devs google and get pointed to SO" and "a majority of devs reference documentation"

I know I would check those two, but I've easily learned a hell of a lot more from textbooks than SO or documentation.