Comment by dave333
7 months ago
The traditional Unix man page or list of options output with --help is often a firehose of details that most devs will never use. Sometimes there are a few examples shown of common use cases which is a good place to start learning the tool.
Sure, but IME even when the tool in question is incredibly well-documented (like Django, or some other popular library), and has plenty of examples, most still don’t read the docs.
I don’t know how to deal with that mentality. I don’t mind showing someone how I came to an answer, but I also expect them to remember that for the next time, and do some searching of their own.