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I prefer to just get started by building something. A good By Examples or Cookbook is usually helpful.

I actually started writing one for Swift:

https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook

The functional examples get their own page: https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook/blob/master/functio...

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> I prefer to just get started by building something.

I think you're missing the point (of the original article). That's pretty much the issue here, some languages have such complicated ecosystems that you can't "just" build something.

To go from "ok I've written some code" to "it runs", sometimes it takes hours of wrestling with complicated tools and reading poorly written docs. It's infuriating.

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