You will be surprised, but I believe it can be hard for a lot of people who come from the webdev background.
When I just started with Cordova, I went to a HTML5DEVCONF talk where the speaker tried to install (just install) Cordova in a 20m slot. He failed, his slides had all the ingredients (Xcode, jdk, ant, maven, npm, cordova, ios-sim, etc) but on the live demo his new machine failed because some of the many steps wasn't satisfied.
About using Cordova: again, for newcomers, it is so non-obvious: what do you do when your build fails? How do I debug this objective-c code again? Why the heck Cordova doesn't give me all the logs by default? ios-sim is an npm module that is compiled with a C compiler and the build process is navigated by rake - ruby-based make clone.
When I just started with Cordova, I went to a HTML5DEVCONF talk where the speaker tried to install (just install) Cordova in a 20m slot. He failed, his slides had all the ingredients (Xcode, jdk, ant, maven, npm, cordova, ios-sim, etc) but on the live demo his new machine failed because some of the many steps wasn't satisfied.
About using Cordova: again, for newcomers, it is so non-obvious: what do you do when your build fails? How do I debug this objective-c code again? Why the heck Cordova doesn't give me all the logs by default? ios-sim is an npm module that is compiled with a C compiler and the build process is navigated by rake - ruby-based make clone.