Comment by flumpcakes

> It's the only usable form of reference! I want all the details to be presented in a reference. Where else?

I guess it's like a dictionary: it's only useful if you know the word you want to look up, rather than reading through every definition until you find the function/library/ability that you want. I do agree though, when I need to look something up, I do want it in great detail - it just isn't a very good learning resource.

> It seems to me the author is confusing lack of familiarity with lack of existence. There are lots of fantastic tools out there, you just need to learn them. They don't know them, so conclude they don't exist.

Can you give some examples? The author made a compelling argument on how easy it is to use the browser debugger. I would be of great interest for something similar.

> We already have all that.

I've only seen these for simple python applications or web development, never in any 'low level' space. And certainly not for doing anything interesting in the low level space (something that is not just a C++ language tutorial).