Suppose I want to convert a string to uppercase in a language.
(1) Google it.
(2) Read the official docs or a Stack Overflow answer.
(3) Copy-paste the function/method name to my program.
This is an absurd number of keystrokes! Do any languages aim to minimise this?
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https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html shows 46% as of today.
One advantage I've come to appreciate about Dash/Zeal docsets: it's really nice having focused search.
The text search is constrained to the languages I care about enough to download the docset, substantially increasing the relevance. In Google I'd need to specify the language.
I'm intrigued to see that Google has quantified that new code is generally buggier and less secure than code that has existed in your codebase for longer: