Pitfalls for beginners and the value of convenience and hand-holding

I think the biggest pitfall is assuming that you do not need to read the manual (just the manual, not the standard libs or devdocs) from beginning to end before using the language.

But in fact, every new user should do this. One does not have to remember everything, just have a vague memory of something being mentioned so it can be revisited later.

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