Elixir Newcomer's Struggle with Erlang Documentation

The author of this content has recently embarked on their journey with the Elixir programming language, having almost completed their first book on the subject, 'Elixir in Action' by Saša Jurić. Moving on to practical coding, they attempted to explore the socket and gen_tcp functionality within Erlang's standard library. Despite their experience as a web developer, they found the Erlang documentation to be quite difficult to digest, particularly when contrasted with the more user-friendly Elixir documentation. They express their efforts in hacking together a working solution, but it was a time-consuming process. This leads to their main inquiry—whether the complexity of Erlang's documentation is a common hurdle for developers or if it's more related to their personal skill level in interpreting it.