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Of course you don't have to believe me, but I'm genuinely puzzled why apparently most tutorials spend such an disproportionate amount on these more theoretical explanations.

One explanation of course might be that a lot of the crowd looking into this are coming from a computer-science background where they are more enthusiastic about the basics. And to them, the fact that (after a lot of coding chores, writing up libraries) it eventually will make sql-injection harder, or parallel handling of web-service faster will be seen just as a logical consequence not worth making a lot of fuzz about.

But for attracting a larger community one has to make the gains for the average programmer more visible.




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