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The Elephant at WWDC

Every developer should watch the 5 videos about DocC from WWDC. But it’s really a plaintive cry for help. Until Apple squares up and addresses the problem, it can only grow worse.

Just as WWDC was about to start, Michael Tsai posted a brief note in which he details how to download and access Apple’s old conceptual documentation for macOS, much of which has never been replaced or updated over the last five years or more. By a strange coincidence, this was followed by no less than five videos at WWDC about a new developer documentation system named DocC, which for many commentators seems to have passed unnoticed. Yet both are unmistakable signs of the elephant at WWDC: documentation.

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