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12% of the survey respondents said they were involved in technical writing, though only 9% have technical writing as their official job role.
When asked about their job roles, respondents were able to select more than one option.
Compared to last year we see a 5-percentage-point increase in the number of developers who author customer-facing documentation.
The docs-as-code approach is growing in popularity, as more people use developer tools for authoring documentation – 6 percentage points more than in 2021, to be exact.
Markdown is still the most popular markup language, and 13% of those involved in technical writing use custom Markdown flavors to enrich its base functionality.
Even though 80% of respondents need to reuse content, more than one-third still copy and paste similar content manually.
6%
of those who write docs automate documentation checks, with broken markup, external links, and code samples being the most popular tests used. Interestingly, 10% also automate language checks.
58%
need to document APIs and 61% auto-generate API documentation, opting to use Swagger most of the time.
30%
automate routine work by configuring templates, mostly automating different types of topics, documents, and repeated content.
47%
of those who use templates create parameterized ones.
English is by far the most popular primary language for tech documentation. Chinese comes a distant second.
68%
of technical writers have considered using a professional tool for technical writing.
13% of all respondents involved in tech writing already localize their documentation into other languages, and 10% are planning to do so.
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