The best docs on the planet are now held by Mozilla on Javascript.
The MDN web docs? I agree, they are superb.
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#12Django, the Python-based web framework, has fantastic docs too: https://docs.djangoproject.com
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#13Any discussion on documentation is incomplete without mentioning Django
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#14I love https://redis.io/documentation. It has a great UI too.
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#15The TeXbook, and the Exim spec.
The thing the latter gets right is that, as well as the usual long list of options with an explanation of what their effects are, it also describes in full detail what the program actually does, rather than leaving you to deduce it from the options.
So each option is normally described twice: once in an alphabetical list, and once where the operation it affects is described.
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#16Redux is good given how small the library is. Rust stands out as well
I'm underwhelmed by the Rust docs.
The tutorial is OK-ish, but the reference docs are weak. If I have a specific question about some detail of the language, the answer is very rarely there.
Sometimes the answer is written up in the bug-tracking system or an RFC. They don't seem to have a culture where someone making a behaviour change, or a language-definition decision, is expected to update the reference manual at the same time.
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#17ZeroMQ stands out for me. http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all
Yeah. I'm pretty sure I'd benefit from reading those docs even if I never use ZMQ.
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#18QT wasn't so bad as far as I remember.
But as jolmg pointed out, some projects are just simple readme and that is more than enough. Love those. But the total opposite is also common, a wall of text that is meaningless and in the end, you have to go through the source code to get some answers...
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#19Stripe has the best API documentation, I have seen.
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#20I like plot.ly's documentation - has a good mix of top level examples and specific, deep documentation.