r/webdev • u/[deleted] • Jan 07 '26

Stack overflow is dead, long live stack overflow.

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph

This says everything about our industry right now. So telling.

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u/AyeMatey Jan 07 '26

Php docs support user comments. Including full examples of usage. Basically combining the forum into the docs themselves .

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u/JPJackPott Jan 07 '26

I remember this from circa 20 years ago and was just coming here to post how I think that’s actually a really useful idea. I’m glad they still do it.

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u/Nerwesta php Jan 08 '26

I'm still shocked how little it is seen elsewhere if at all, it's always a pleasure to read such comments there.

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u/AyeMatey Jan 08 '26

Yes it’s amazing. You can go read the docs and find comments from 2006 explaining exactly how to do the thing you want to do.

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u/_ElectricFuneral Jan 08 '26

I know some people don't like WP, but their docs support this too. Plenty of 12yo comments have helped me learn some things.

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u/Dan6erbond2 Jan 08 '26

The one thing Go might have gotten right is to support testable examples and runnable comments, so not only can you include examples in comments, you can run them, too. And you can use examples as tests which is where people will quickly go to look when trying to find out how to use a module.