ZOzomglings·Dec 7, 2019
When I'm just learning a new programming language or framework, I prefer to have something like create-react-app [0], django-admin startproject [1], cargo new [2], or lein new [3].
Guides like these are just full of (the wrong type of) rabbit holes. Just give new people something that lets them work productively as soon as possible and refer them to language documentation to understand how features of the language or the runtime work - in case they want to dig deeper.
Most people will not want to dig deeper, anyway. They will be happier to just have boilerplate that works and that they can iterate upon.
Look at the golang version of this guide: https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout
How many programmers new to go are going to want to wade through all of that? Especially when they're probably starting out with projects for whic
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h most of those conventions don't even apply!
It's surprising to me that Python, as focused as its philosophy is on providing canonical solutions to problems, doesn't have a "python -m newproject". There must be a good reason. Will try making one in my free time to find out.
[0] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/django-admin/#star...
[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/guide/creating-a-new-project...
[3] https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/doc/TUT...