I'm responding because when I found this a while ago and I felt similar to you, but mostly I felt it was weird coming from Ryan Bigg. Maybe I'm giving him too

I'm responding because when I found this a while ago and I felt similar to you, but mostly I felt it was weird coming from Ryan Bigg. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit for the awesomess that is the Rails guides, but I don't think I am... What I did get from these Elixir guides (at least in my head) is that Ryan is always just being Ryan: a particularly great, proficient, and prolific writer of documentation. When he was writing about Rails, he was in his wheelhouse and he feckin' killed it and appealed to the exact right audience. When he wrote about Elixir, it was good but I felt he was out of his comfort zone and trying a new tone (the one you describe). This is purely my speculation but ya... again, just responding since this comment both made me a bit annoyed that you'd even bring this up (of course you have every right to), and struck a pretty hard chord with me.......and I'm tired and a little tipsy. Anyway, massive respect to Ryan. I feel like he is one of the, if not The, unsung hero of Rails' popularity. The Rails guides are really special.