After diligently studying the source code to the server web framework, I have some competence in it now.
and that's how I bootstrap into new technologies. After a decade+ of this, I've gotten pretty good at doing that. But boy, it can be a pain when you just want to get rolling.
@andschwa there are clear generational differences imo. Ruby & Python raised the bar for docs, people started to expect and rely on that level of detail, so the expectation of reading the source started to implode