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Lol @ that example.

https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/blob/master/fastapi/rout...

But yeah, code is documentation!!! We don’t need any actual API docs!!! All hail tiangolo!

I'm in fact super acclimated with that file in particular. I've had zero problem jumping in and hacking around with it (been trying to cook up a FastAPI-like endpoint interface for async jobs/tasks a la Celery). Not a single line is surprising if you slow down and actually read the code - and I consider myself less-than-great at actually reading other people's code. It took me all of ... 15 minutes to find my way around, figure out the machinery I needed to hijack, and maybe another 45 to get a crude MVP of my concept working.

Honestly I prefer it over reading documentation and then having to mentally map to the codebase. I wish I could write this code well.

You sure you've actually read any of it, or did you just skim, see no docstrings, and decide it's crap?

Is this an example of Stockholm syndrome

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