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Cr4yfish@lemmy.world
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I just wished the Lemmy API docs were better lol.

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drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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Yeah, that’s a problem with a lot of FOSS passion projects. We devs kinda like writting code, but not really documenting it. Hopefully with the influx of devs helping that will improve

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danc4498@lemmy.world
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More devs that don’t want to write code?

Edit: damn, meant to say write documentation. We only want to code!

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drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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Well, more devs that have to sit down and figure out how the code works and then document it for future new devs

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tomorrow_famous@feddit.uk
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I don’t think that is contained to FOSS passion projects ;)

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Acheron@sh.itjust.works
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I don’t really like all the LLM hype, but I’m hoping that documentation will eventually be generated by some open source model, with human verification

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tool@r.rosettast0ned.com
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I think that this line of reasoning becomes less and less tenable when things like Swagger exist.

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c0c0c0@lemmy.world
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Maybe we’ll eventually get the corresponding influx of tech writers.

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astral_avocado@programming.dev
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It’s like almost every piece of software, period.

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tool@r.rosettast0ned.com
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I just wished the Lemmy API docs were better lol.

Finnegans Wake makes more sense than Lemmy API docs. Even calling it “documentation” is a stretch.

I literally had to clone the Lemmy git repo and read the source code to find the implementation of an API endpoint and see how it worked for a script that I was writing.

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Fauzruk@lemmy.world
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These days the standard is to create an API Doc out of a OpenAPI document generated from the code itself. Someone will probably contribute to it at some point.

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𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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Fediverse software API documentation is bad across all fediverse software.

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