Installing Drupal 8 (for the first time)

At last! I managed to find the time to test my first drupal 8 site.

The plan is to install this first sandbox in my machine using MAMP (Pro) and start understanding how the new version is and works.
I decided not to read any blog or tutorial and see if everything is simpler than with drupal 7 or not... i guess this plan is feasible at the beginning of this story but not so much at an early stage, since I´m not experienced with symfony or OOP.

Installation:
Without much doubt, i went to https://www.drupal.org/node/2348025 and downloaded the .zip with the files. Next I created a new database (Mysql), unzipped the files, and move them to my htdocs folder under my MAMP directory. I then went to my browser and wrote the url to my local site: localhost:8888/d8.
- First Error: I go this error in my log: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/dee8/core/vendor/guzzlehttp/streams/src/functions.php on line 195
Didn´t find much on google so I went back to drupal.org to look for a hint, on a first read I saw that the minimum php version was 5.4. Changed the php version on my MAMP server to 5.4 and restarted it. A new visit to my local url displayed the first step of my new drupal 8 site :)
- Look&Feel: not that is fundamental, but as a designer, the aspect of the new drupal is not very catchy, but i guess is not the right time.
- Installation warnings: as in drupal 7, I ran into the classic "no settings.php file" or the "files is not writable" plus a new one about a missing "services" directory :) So I go to my site directory to fix all these warnings and proceed with the installation.
- Installation process: the configuration is finally ready and I let drupal 8 load and install all the modules... notice that drupal 8 is slower than it´s older brother, but I guess this can be explained by the fact that I´m using a very early beta version.

DONE! this was piece of cake.

I´ll talk more about my first drupal 8 experience in upcoming posts.

Cheers

Nico