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Re:An Unbelievable Demo by mercer on Friday June 04, 2021 @11:19AM (#27394465)
I've more than once had one of the core developers of Elixir or Phoenix answer a question almost right after asking it in the Slack or IRC channel. I often felt a bit embarrassed to take up their time considering how 'basic' these questions were.

I've had similar experiences in other language/framework communities. It's amazing how helpful some of these very productive people can be to random chat visitors :)!

Re:An Unbelievable Demo by mst on Saturday June 05, 2021 @12:57PM (#27406652)
The trick is to remember that they're almost certainly working on that stuff because they enjoy making users happy, so they're also doing support for the same reason.

I do feel a little bit embarrassed if it turns out they're reading the docs to me, but I feel embarrassed about that whether it's an expert or a fellow n00b ;)

Re:An Unbelievable Demo by mercer on Sunday June 06, 2021 @05:06AM (#27411804)
Haha, I've found that to be good training to always read the docs first.