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I prefer to just get started by building something. A good By Examples or Cookbook is usually helpful. I actually started writing one for Swift: https://githu

I prefer to just get started by building something. A good By Examples or Cookbook is usually helpful. I actually started writing one for Swift: https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook The functional examples get their own page: https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook/blob/master/functional.md https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook/blob/master/functio... Dictionaries, Arrays, Dates, Sorting, ...

cblum 6y ago
> I prefer to just get started by building something. I think you're missing the point (of the original article). That's pretty much the issue here, some languages have such complicated ecosystems that you can't "just" build something. To go from "ok I've written some code" to "it runs", sometimes it takes hours of wrestling with complicated tools and reading poorly written docs. It's infuriating.