Ask HN: Where do you read C++ documentation?

10 points·ddtaylor··8 comments

Many of the sites that score high in Google lack basic features. I consider Java documentation to be very easy to navigate and I understand C++ has more complexity - but something like STL should have a modern documentation somewhere of similar quality.

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And once again: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp is the premier source for me. It should be added, that their aim is to give a (readable) specification of the language (http://en.cppreference.com/w/Cppreference:FAQ). If you need a stressable answer to some weird C++ question, you can look it up there first.

https://zealdocs.org/ is a pretty good offline doc browser, if you happen to need that.

http://en.cppreference.com/ is probably one of the most used sites to get all the info you need for all versions of c++

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/

I like this reference source, just because the styling is a little bit better, but I have to agree that cppreference.com is one of the premier resources.

I like http://en.cppreference.com/, as lusocoding posted, but I've noticed many prefer the unified UI of http://devdocs.io/cpp/ - It does seem less complete though.

Thank you devdocs.io is one I haven't seen yet.

MSDN and man pages. All the other sources are second handed.

How do you actually find the c++ docs in man. They never seem to be installed on my desktop. I would love it if I could just type `man std::Vector` to get details about a vector, and its methods.

I've never been able to find any docs installed on my system even using `apropos` to search.

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