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[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago (13 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Slimy_hog 1 points 5 months ago

And if you keep doing that, you'll start to get outdated documentation

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