This is true, but you need to do battle with "all the things around it" in order to get the thing to work properly in the first place. I agree that to learn a

This is true, but you need to do battle with "all the things around it" in order to get the thing to work properly in the first place. I agree that to learn a language you should not focus on "operational" stuff, but once you get into web frameworks that line can get a little blurry.