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There is also

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

It gives small language syntax/feature tours.

Each file is legitimate syntax for the language it documents.



Would love the equivalent of this but before applying practical problem solving. For instance in go you learn to leverage goroutines and channels. In another language it would be threads. Common design patterns etc. Gotcha’s of the language. In Python you use exception handling very commonly, in golang you’re using a special return value of an error type. JavaScript you’re using a ton of anonymous function closures. Async vs await.

I keep wanting to build this mega doc site to teach more than just “what are scalar types in this language” and more of how to apply it in idiomatic ways.


https://rosettacode.org/ shows you how to solve problems in many languages. you can add your own problems too.


brilliant!



Devdocs is just a collection of official documentations. GP wants a collection of documentation that explains comparative, idiomatic problem solving in each language. How are they even remotely similar?


sure but the comment two steps up mentions wanting to build a site, devdocs exists and could host that information they want to compile and build.


This is excellent. I checked Julia which is my main language and all essentials are there. Looked up to Zig, F#, Go all accessible expositions and makes it easy to get a good taste before looking into the manuals.




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