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Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText – a tale of docs-as-code
Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText - a tale of docs-as-code.
Who writes the developer documentation for your product? During the early days of my tech career, I worked on a database replication product at IBM. My immediate team had developers and testers but not a single technical writer. I can speak for myself when I say that I never bothered to know who keeps writing the lengthy and complex documentation for every release. Since then, many companies in tech (including companies like IBM) have taken a modern approach to documentation. This “modernization” started when more and more developers started writing documentation (not all developers hate writing docs). Having git running in their DNA, these developers wanted to bring in collaboration, version control, scripting, and easier bug tracking within developer documentation.
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