It's extremely hard to write good tutorials. This one is very clear, but seems to have no time budget or reader model. I appreciate the clarity and the extens

It's extremely hard to write good tutorials. This one is very clear, but seems to have no time budget or reader model. I appreciate the clarity and the extensiveness, but it mainly makes me wish for something different. Today there are so many IDE's and online coding environments, godbolt, Swift playgrounds, golang interactive tutorials, etc. It would be lovely to see a C++ tutorial join that trend. I find the tutorial unsettling from the first words: `original, self-contained`. My first step in writing a tutorial would be to link the current state of the art, and the last would be a section pointing users to further resources, if my goal were not to trap readers but to help them. (Originality is a tall claim as the internet spawns LLMs.) Without any orientation to the landscape, the tutorial proceeds step-by-step with topologically-sorted vignettes that explain themselves verbosely. hello-world is prefixed by a long explanation why people start with hello-world, and following by 16 paragraphs of (to me) excruciating hand-holding and suggested experiments, without re-quoting the code. It's like pair-programming with someone who tells you what to type. The original K&R book was breathtakingly brief, mainly just showing you how to do things. Effective C++ neatly crystallized specific problems and solutions. Both benefited most by what they left out. Outside of an interactive tutorial for newbie's, what's needed for "modern" C++ is an origin story for each feature: what motivated it, how backwards-compatibility shaped it, what design decisions were made, how well it has been implemented and used -- ideally with bonus comparisons how Rust and Swift and Go managed the same issues. I think that would help people remember the complex issues and the syntax, and how to use it. To me most of the discussion from the C++ originators is more expository than explanatory: `for each opinion, explain in detail with cross-references to other opinions` - the political template. But readers only need to know the distinctions that make a difference in when and how they use a feature. Actual users are busy and paid only to get things done, not sling words. Users who value their time will pay for a good resource.