It’s a newcomer confusion vs old-timer habit. You’ll feel the same in C, python, etc if you never seen these. And vice versa in any direction.
Edit: But I absolutely agree that $subj platform should focus on that, not even on the language. A language can be learned in one evening on a “fiddle” site, no platform required.
Personally, when I become interested in another language, all I want is a page of common snippets or a cheatsheet to get the feel of syntax, and then how to make and deploy a non-toy project with all the usual libs and tools attached.
It’s a yet another facebook shaped opportunity though. The hardest part is not to collect and systematize information, but to become distinguishable from a mountain of shitty blogspam that google agrees to promote for financial reasons.
For meta, I’d say our issue here is not the lack of platforms or manuals, but that we simply don’t have a decent search engine, because we don’t have a decent internet economy model. Our models and tools are indecent and there’s no help.
Edit: But I absolutely agree that $subj platform should focus on that, not even on the language. A language can be learned in one evening on a “fiddle” site, no platform required.
Personally, when I become interested in another language, all I want is a page of common snippets or a cheatsheet to get the feel of syntax, and then how to make and deploy a non-toy project with all the usual libs and tools attached.