i was thinking about how hard it is to teach computers (computers here is like computer programs, the computer shell, other the computer stuff) and how, aside from, you know, teaching being insanely hard in general, tooling makes such a big difference. learning how to use manpages is important, but i tend to reach for tldr for rarely used commands. it's helpful!
also, tooling begets tooling; i promise you that nix/pacman/apt/brew?/whatever are better at installing software than i am, but these tools have to be learned as well. that's annoying! (i've rambled about the trials and rewards about the nix somewhere).
last thing in this sphere: editors. nice editors are nice! i love my emacs, but it's impossible to even quantify what it took for me to finally get in a place where it's useful for me. vscode is nice because it is extremely accessible, literally and keybind wise, here, access it. DrRacket is much less polished (let me control backspace dang it) but it is extremely integrated with the racket language, which makes it so much better for ~learning~1 you can open the thing, type some racket, and it does stuff like showing you arrows and using indentation to help you with parentheses. nice! i don't have a conclusion sorry oopsie
1: okay fine i tried to not do footnotes but here we go. DrRacket also makes racket so much better because it lowers the barrier for making a language with an ide so much it's hilarious see https://beautifulracket.com/jsonic-2/intro.html. woohoo racket!