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Subject: Re: GNATCOLL JSON Parsing
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First, yeah I may have been too harsh but still...

> 1. Their perspective is massively distorted by the level of knowledge of 
> the software internals. Things that appear them obvious can turn a total 
> mystery for a beginner.

You are right. But hey, you need to be sleeping under a rock for not providing meaningful example using JSON reader/writer. The thing is ubiquitous for any backend server these days... and for the past 10 years.  

> 2. Authors know surprisingly little about the potential application of 
> their software. They have some general guesses about the purpose, but 
> nothing substantial about concrete uses. They usually get quite 
> astonished (horrified? (:-)) the ways end users apply their software.

I suppose.

> 3. Writing introductory material requires a great deal of teaching 
> talent to write. Most authors lack it. It is a different job and 
> different qualification.

Ok. To those in needs, write to me, I have plenty of ideas.
 
> They have a much bigger community with much more people available to 
> write independent manuals, samples, blogs, make youtube videos. They 
> have lost of people eager to describe their experience with deploying 
> particular software for particular projects, we do not.

Well, Rust is much younger than Ada. The traction comes from 1) 'modern/trendy' ubiquitous projects and 2) Good doc, nice 'tutorials'. Something like LearnAda, which is great by the way, exists in those new languages for a long time now.