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Read, experiment, read again, experiment again if needed, repeat. Idk if there is better way. You will get used to it tho, and you will...

A strategy you have these days is asking an LLM to explain it to you. Reading APIs is a skill. Learning it takes time and practice. Just keep on...

I usually like going for man pages. If it's not C you probably won't have man pages to use though, unfortunately. also glibc has it's...

How doable this is depends a bit on how well-written the docs are, but try to get a handle on the fundamental concepts first. Good software tends...

I honestly just read the code in most cases and use the documentation as a backup. Unless the project in question has really amazing documentation...

I start with their examples and get something working. I try to extract the author's intent from how they use classes and types and functions or...

There are a few examples of good documentation, such as that of Perl, Raylib, Weechat, Cmdtest; which are well-crafted, intelligently structured...

A bit late to this one, but something I've found is that when I have that sensation of something "washing over me", it's often because I don't...