On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 16:15:45 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Where I think we don't do such a good job is curating such knowledge and presenting it in a form that's easy to digest for newcomers. That's also a function of the kinds of people that are here, because creative people don't like doing boring things like write documentation. (And they have other higher-valued demands on their time). I don't know what the answer is, but we will have to find one over time.
BTW I don't get the documentation problem. I often catch myself admiring my code, yeah I do a good job writing it, and by writing docs I give it credit for its beauty, I brag about great job I did. Like... "look there was this problem and I solved it in the most elegant way possible, see how:... and it does this and that because it's the best thing to do here, and it doesn't do that because it's not good to do it here, and it has this little feature that makes it better than without it and is really helpful". So it feels like people don't want to write docs because they think they wrote a crappy code and hence can't give it credit, they are ashamed to speak about it.
