It's a huge help to ask a newcomer to start off by make changes to an already-established project that has best practices and idioms already sorted.
If you just start with the full language, there are just too many ways to solve every problem and it's not clear which is better for your particular use case. It's a bit like Perl, except moreso: even basic flow control is a library.
If you just start with the full language, there are just too many ways to solve every problem and it's not clear which is better for your particular use case. It's a bit like Perl, except moreso: even basic flow control is a library.