Glossary

The language of developer documentation

Documentation has picked up a lot of vocabulary lately — some of it decades old, some of it invented in the last eighteen months. These are plain definitions, written for engineers who need the concept rather than the pitch.

Docs as code

Writing docs in plain text, in version control, published by a build pipeline.

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Documentation drift

The widening gap between what the docs describe and what the code does.

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