API Documentation vs Library Reference
Mike Parker
aldacron at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 11:58:08 UTC 2022
On Monday, 21 February 2022 at 11:33:55 UTC, partypooper wrote:
> Personally currently in a stage of learning D I have found that
> [API Documentation](https://dlang.org/library/) is much more
> approachable and better structured than [Library
> Reference](https://dlang.org/phobos/index.html) maybe except
> for the modules by Mister Alexandresku, they are well
> structured even in the reference.
>
> But the problem is that there is no any link to api
> documentation on the main page. And I actually found it by
> accident (maybe I'm just blind).
> What do you think about structure of both of them and why there
> is one over the other?
They're the same documentation. IIRC, dlang.org/library/ was put
together as a test of a different layout that was intended to
replace the documentation at dlang.org/phobos. I don't remember
who did it, or why the switch never happened.
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