I consider myself really good at debugging, but How does one "read the docs?" is something I never got good at? Notable devs like mitchellh skim the entire docs to get a vague idea of where stuff might be. This was never helpful for me. Docs seem to try to explain things in general whereas I think humans learn much faster from examples? We learn speech before grammar, we learn addition before number theory.
Searching for examples also biases your results to more commonly used functions. Function use is very Pareto distributed (small core of common functions... (read more)
I consider myself really good at debugging, but How does one "read the docs?" is something I never got good at? Notable devs like mitchellh skim the entire docs to get a vague idea of where stuff might be. This was never helpful for me. Docs seem to try to explain things in general whereas I think humans learn much faster from examples? We learn speech before grammar, we learn addition before number theory.
Searching for examples also biases your results to more commonly used functions. Function use is very Pareto distributed (small core of common functions... (read more)