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by siscia 2383 days ago
Maybe I am over reacting to the way you wrote your comment and this definitely won't be liked by the general community.

Serious developer do not refer to stackoverflow. Developers should use stackoverflow only to lookup for names of functions or methods. Nothing else.

When you find what you are looking for, then you go reading the official documentations. In the extremely rare and specific case when the documentation is not there (and when you cannot change the library that you are using, why would you use a library without documentation?) then you go read the code.

If the majority of your time is spent copying and pasting (with slight modification) from stackoverflow you are extremely junior in that field.

I see it on myself, when I do backend work stackoverflow is not even on my tabs. But when I do some frontend for personal projects I just keep going back and forth.

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> Serious developer do not refer to stackoverflow. Developers should use stackoverflow only to lookup for names of functions or methods. Nothing else.

Declaring such BS without a hint of doubt in the way you phrase it... Using SO does not make you a bad developer, having preconceived ideas about what makes a good developer definitely does not help you become one.

Please read carefully my phrasing.

Using SO for something different than trivial lookup is a recipes for disaster and it says a lot about the quality of the work done.