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		mr_toad on Jan 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal t... > Thing is, documentation is great to capture static knowledge, and a evolving software is not static by any means There are many open source projects with great documentation and they manage to keep abreast of changes. This attitude among programmers that documentation is hard, so don’t bother is just that - attitude.

moffkalast on Jan 10, 2023 | [–]

> and they manage to keep abreast of changes

With varying degrees of success.

ikrenji on Jan 10, 2023 | [–]

the documentation for something like angular or rxjs is about how to use the framework, the documentation doesn't explain the underlying code...

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