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by chefandy 479 days ago
Yeah— I hate coming across a doc that’s less like a technical reference, or even a tutorial, and more like a treatise on the philosophy behind their technical decisions. I know it’s a bit controversial, but I find Python’s docs like that. They’re very thorough and great for reading about how the Python interpreter does things, and why, but if you need to quickly reference something about a function or a quick reminder about syntax you infrequently use, they’re miles behind MDN’s JavaScript docs, any of the .NET language docs I’ve used, Elixir’s, and even PHP (though the lack of versioning when I used it seemed dangerous).