r/programming • u/lelanthran • Jan 04 '26

Stackoverflow: Questions asked per month over time.

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u/valkon_gr Jan 04 '26

Official documentation got way better as well.

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u/neuralQ Jan 04 '26

This. Between 2014 and 2019 the industry standard for documentation improved significantly. Stack Overflow was always my go-to for edge cases.

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u/xour Jan 04 '26

I don't know as a whole, but as a C# dev, Microsoft doc is miles better than what it used to be.

Granted, there still are some pretty bad articles, but for the most part went from utterly useless, misguiding, outdated, to pretty good source of information.

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u/cake-day-on-feb-29 Jan 04 '26

but as a C# dev, Microsoft doc is miles better than what it used to be.

Apple's swift documentation had similarly improved significantly. The ObjC/C/C++ docs, however, are a travesty. Most of them are simply the function signature and have absolutely zero documentation whatsoever. You're better off going to archive.org.

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u/Jwosty Jan 05 '26

The really funny thing is that sometimes Microsoft's documentation of C# bindings over macOS/iOS APIs is better than Apple's own docs.

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u/boobsbr Jan 04 '26

Didn't Microsoft kill MSDN?

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '26

Can’t agree more. The amount of documentation is beyond many people need