We currently have a student for training and had her learn Rust. After two weeks or so, she told me that she had a really hard time finding anything about Rust, and it became clear that she was really confused and thought Rust was some fringe technology that no one uses.

And yeah, no, search engines just got obliterated by LLM spam since the last time she had to learn a new technology. Seriously, I remember getting better results about Rust back in 2018, when it was really still relatively fringe...

[–] eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

In that case you can try adding before:2023 or similar to your search

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

But then you need to know enough about the topic already to know what is stable and what changes with newer versions.

Like, the "web dev boot camp" course I got from UDemy a few years ago as a guide for building a web dev high school course: I recently went back to to look something up, and the whole thing has been completely redone start to finish. Makes sense, considering that it's updated to the newest versions of Bootstrap and other libraries (and who knows what else).

I know nothing about Rust, but I would assume there are at least some libraries that have major new versions in the last couple of years which might change best practices somehow? idk. But the harder part is not knowing what you don't know.

[–] Slimy_hog@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

And if you keep doing that, you'll start to get outdated documentation

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago

switch search engines ffs

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