Stack Overflow’s new ‘Documentation’ feature puts examples first, boring text second
Jul21
Any developer will tell you that technical documentation is pretty terrible — but necessary. Stack Overflow, which has been handling Q&A for years, thinks it can fix it with a new tool. The aptly named ‘Documentation’ (still in beta) will rely on actual examples more that wording. Instead of digging through hundreds or thousands of words to get an idea of how to move forward, Documentation will use straight-up code to get a point across. That’s not really new; documentation typically has code snippets included, but Documentation puts it at the forefront. Best of all, anyone can add a code…
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