> it certainly resonates with me! I recently started getting into Javascript 2D game programming. MDN has a nice simple straightforward tutorial[1] on how to

> it certainly resonates with me! I recently started getting into Javascript 2D game programming. MDN has a nice simple straightforward tutorial[1] on how to make a Breakout game in pure Javascript. Having read this tutorial, it all fits my brain. It's simple and I understand it. There are also lots of frameworks you can use, e.g. Excalibur, which also has a breakout game tutorial[2]. This does not fit my brain: there are vast number of classes to learn, and how everything fits together is not obvious at all. While I was reading the MDN tutorial I was thinking to myself how I could easily build a framework to automate a lot of the stuff. (No doubt many others thought the same!) If I did build such a framework I would understand it well. It would fit my brain. But would anyone else understand it? Possibly not. I suspect that what makes a framework easy to learn is, above everything else, good documentation. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Tutorials/2D_... [2]: https://excaliburjs.com/docs/getting-started/ https://excaliburjs.com/docs/getting-started/