“Go read the docs” is not helpful! I tried that 8 years ago based on HN sentiment about C# and my experience with the Microsoft docs was that they are very deta

“Go read the docs” is not helpful! I tried that 8 years ago based on HN sentiment about C# and my experience with the Microsoft docs was that they are very detailed but the level of detail makes it difficult to quickly pick up what it’s like to actually use one of their thingies. I walked into the docs for Entity Framework, spent 6 hours trying to get Visual Studio and their suggested development database set up, then gave up and went back to Rails which took 1 apt-get command and 2 Ruby commands.