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I've been using Rust for toy projects for a while, and I gotta say Rust is one of the nicest languages out there. Kudos to the Rust team. As a relative newbie

by yen223 12y ago

I've been using Rust for toy projects for a while, and I gotta say Rust is one of the nicest languages out there. Kudos to the Rust team. As a relative newbie to Rust, one of the biggest hurdles I faced was that of poor documentation. A lot of "rust xxx" searches would link to outdated articles or to stale links in the Rust official docs. I understand that Rust is a young language, and documentation is probably the last thing on the core devs' to-do list (and rightly so), but I think it would greatly help drive adoption rates if we could proper docs in place.

masklinn 12y ago
> A lot of "rust xxx" searches would link to outdated articles or to stale links in the Rust official docs. Or to an old mirror of the official doc, http://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v0.9 http://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v0.9 is the bane of my rustperience.
- yen223 12y ago
  It doesn't help that there's a game called Rust out there!
  - masklinn 12y ago
    I feared that, but overall combined with programmatic context (e.g. iter, array or whatever) I've had the game come up very rarely.
    - broodbucket 12y ago
      It gets a bit annoying that a lot of Rust libraries are named something rust-themed. I was looking at which web framework I should use (between Nickel and Iron) and so searching "rust nickel vs iron" returned absolutely nothing of relevance. I did learn something about metals, though, so there's that.
      - masklinn 12y ago
        Hah yes that is definitely an annoying property of "cutesy" library names, they're cute and fairly easy to remember but finding them afterwards is a pain in the ass compared to unfun dreary names like "rust-web".
- steveklabnik 12y ago
  I specifically contacted MIT about this issue, and unfortunately, we're just gonna have to out-SEO them.
  - masklinn 12y ago
    Did they give any reason why they couldn't e.g. use google's webmaster tools to disable indexing of these pages?

by yen223 12y ago

masklinn 12y ago

> A lot of "rust xxx" searches would link to outdated articles or to stale links in the Rust official docs. Or to an old mirror of the official doc, http://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v0.9 http://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v0.9 is the bane of my rustperience.

yen223 12y ago
It doesn't help that there's a game called Rust out there!
- masklinn 12y ago
  I feared that, but overall combined with programmatic context (e.g. iter, array or whatever) I've had the game come up very rarely.
  - broodbucket 12y ago
    It gets a bit annoying that a lot of Rust libraries are named something rust-themed. I was looking at which web framework I should use (between Nickel and Iron) and so searching "rust nickel vs iron" returned absolutely nothing of relevance. I did learn something about metals, though, so there's that.
    - masklinn 12y ago
      Hah yes that is definitely an annoying property of "cutesy" library names, they're cute and fairly easy to remember but finding them afterwards is a pain in the ass compared to unfun dreary names like "rust-web".
steveklabnik 12y ago
I specifically contacted MIT about this issue, and unfortunately, we're just gonna have to out-SEO them.
- masklinn 12y ago
  Did they give any reason why they couldn't e.g. use google's webmaster tools to disable indexing of these pages?