Hi all, since the last community meeting in February I worked on the ns8 prototype with Nethesis teammates.
You’re right, after one year many ideas around NS8 were put in reality. There’s still way to go and as Giacomo said above, some important decisions to take, for instance what Linux distro(s) Nethesis will support.
Before we take those decisions, we want to come back here with an alpha, so we can evaluate together.
I’m really happy you are eager to learn and already got some information from the ns8-scratchpad repository.
We strive to realize a platform that is developer friendly, sysadmin friendly and end-user friendly. We are working everyday with new things, like Podman and Buildah. For some core components I learnt a bit of Golang - thanks to my teammates help 
However the docs are outdated and they need to be aligned with recent prototype evolutions. You have to wait a bit more. Hopefully we’ll get there in 4-5 weeks.
I’ll be glad to share as much information as possible in a video-conference too!