I wasn't attempting to use it as a support forum, more venting after trying it, as I was hoping for something that Just Works(TM) at least for the basic, without me having to spend weeks hacking around with it. I'm quite happy to spend some more time tuning and customising, but only if I get the basics working easily, I'm sure it understands me, and I'm sure it's going to worth the time.

I'm hope you don't think I'm trying to be mean, it was just a really disappointing first experience. Might be my expectations were misaligned.

I had actually already installed the VSCode plugin and restarted both VSCode and Talon (I don't remember if I saw it in a comment in a .talon file, or if I saw it in the console logs, but somewhere it told me to install a plugin). Similarly, I installed the Rider/Idea.

I wasn't quite just saying anything :) Tho it wasn't clear what commands were actually accepted; from looking in the .talon files, I didn't see anything like a string literal, more something code-like. I had to guess at what commands were supported, for example "reload" in Chrome (assuming that's actually a correct command, even that simple command only worked some of the time).

I'm willing to give it another go, but is there a getting starting guide/tutorial for how to get started using it, and how to see what it's actually trying to do when it does something? I used the getting starting guide on the Talon site, but that only tells me how to install it, not actually how to use it.