This was brought home to me, when I tried to learn Angular2 - a whiz-bang product that Google is proud of.
I tried three different ways of learning it - Angular University's year-long course, WebStorm (produced by IntelliJ, a high-powered outfit if ever there was one) and the book Learning Angular - provided by O'Reilly's Safari service - that uses the Angular site's Quick Start procedure.
In every case, I ended up off the track, and stranded in the weeds.
Because computer technology has advanced too fast. It moved from the Desktop personal computer to the Laptop, in the Nineties. This was a huge improvement in hardware, and we also got the IDE (Microsoft's Visual Studio and NetBeans) - a huge improvement in software. Both made programmers able to understand what they were doing - and more productive, as a result.
But the Cloud arrived, like the Second Coming - bringing Heaven on Earth. Or maybe something else. Whatever it was, we were poorly prepared to handle it.
Everyone in the Software ecosystem is saying "We are wonderful, we are wonderful - and we don't mind saying that!"
Is this wacky, or what?
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