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How have influencers impacted the software world?
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A lot of tutorials are video when they used to be text. This makes it harder to reference specific parts. It also makes it harder to copy code out of the tutorial, though you can argue that's an advantage.
I'd also argue it makes it harder to use, period: something that takes me 10 seconds to read somehow ends up being a 5 minute video, of which 90% is fluff that's not related to the problem.
I've yet to land on a tutorial video that gets to the point and doesn't feel the need to waste a ton of time introducing themselves, a paragraph about what we're doing, asking me to subscribe, talking about their sponsor and so on.
I lament the death of the text-based tutorial and strongly dislike the youtube format video.
Your first paragraph is why I am violently allergic to video tutorials. I always dread when I cannot find any articles and there is only a video.
Also it's easier to skip through text, than it is to skip through video. I can read way faster than people talk, and most of the time I at least kinda know what I'm looking for. E.g. I often skip the question part on SO and see if the code in the answer looks like what I'm looking for, or maybe it's something I already tried and didn't work.