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Sorry I was just trying to help. You're obviously perfectly capable of clicking on links, reading and figuring out things for yourself... My intent was to help figure out if this was worth investigating as you were wondering to which I clearly failed. You car analogy is still falling short but it doesn't matter. Best of luck ;)


The car analogy is just right, IMO. It's a functional description of how a car works at a high level, so that we can understand how it's put together; and if we're reasonably expert in mechanics, we can fill in a lot of missing details. Whereas "a box that you sit in that lets you get to where you want to go quickly" leaves out far too much detail.

Too many descriptions of tools for devs sell benefits instead of functions. This is normally good sales practice, but devs are experts in the mechanisms behind the tools they use, and they generally prefer more functional descriptions so that they can more quickly evaluate whether any given tool is a good fit for them, and what its strengths and weaknesses will be.


Yeah, on the other hand I'm looking closely at this one just because of the people that showed up in this thread. I know some of these guys and their past work is exceptional, so if they're claiming to be involved in this, I am sure I'll be sorry if I don't check it out.


OK they're obviously not just involved, actually driving...




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