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by fastball 2680 days ago
Honestly, I'm disappointed that there isn't any prose / new content involved in this "book".

I think it would be nice to have an actual "book", with community-composed chapters. They would follow the same topics listed here, but with actual cohesive explanations and background, rather than just a list of resources.

For example, looking at the first section (Shells), it would be nice to have an actual bit of writing which tells you about the evolution of shells and why some might be preferred over others.

Awesome Lists[0] already does a pretty good job of maintaining a collection of curated lists.

0: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

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"I think it would be nice to have an actual "book", with community-composed chapters. They would follow the same topics listed here, but with actual cohesive explanations and background, rather than just a list of resources." - hmm... PR welcome :) Prove yourself man.
I really find this list awesome as it is. And the short explanations are really good IMHO.

Without any offense intended, if you need more writing then maybe you need first to read some of the documentation resources before going back to this list?

Also, what I really like is that the author doesn't try to justify why and that's refreshing and lightweight, thanks for that!

But that's like my opinion, man ;-)

It seems a bit redundant to have a list if I need to read the documentation of the things on the list in order to gauge the value of the list.