To be fair, I don't think I've ever seen a serious, hardcore programming book that looked nice. They're either neutral, or just downright weird [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...

> A little off topic, but that is some terrible art on the book cover.

Relative to other books in the series, or do you object to the "historical fashion" style book covers that publisher tends to use?

egghead.io has some awesome illustration for the courses: https://egghead.io/browse/languages/javascript Technical book publishers should just stop hiring ink illustrator that like medieval drawings and get graphic illustrators that like Adobe Illustrator and SVGs