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by AlienRobot 370 days ago
>Vibe coding is more fun than reading documentation. Shit, vibe-coding can be more fun than ordinary coding.

In my experience the big problem is that the documentation is always terrible, you can't ask open-ended questions on stack overflow, the library's reddit (if any) has zero users, and anything asked on their discord is not searchable.

It's incredible that we still don't have a stack overflow that is just a forum.

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There are some bad/missing documentations out there, but more often than not, people rush to use the library without first understanding the domain and learning the library's design. Once that's done, the generated api reference and the source code is more than enough to get going.
Hard to do this:

> learning the library's design

without solid documentation. And if I am reading the library implementation thoroughly, I might as well implement what I need myself.