What an obvious oversight. It is unbelievable that the developers would allow for a 'getting started' guide with such a poor first impression to exist. I have had a similar experience with jquery. As someone who has been using mootools before jquery I was completely furious with the lack of proper documentation and ambiguity in it. I hated learning jquery. Thank god mootools exists. Confusing, incomplete or ambiguous documentation is the absolute worst obstacle to a positive learning experience. I've not tried Ember, but if the experience is as the author describes, then I shall stick to angularjs. And what a tragic reaction to the criticism from the ember developer. It seems fitting that their documentation would be crappy. I'm sure that ember is a wonderful project and took a lot of hard work to create, but please fix the first experience - is important otherwise all that hard work goes to waste. Good luck.