My favorite conspiration theory is that the names go and swift were chosen specifically to make it hard to google stuff.
If I invent a programming language, I will call it the.
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SOAP. Back in the day when I was first learning how it worked, I wondered if I could make Ajax work with it somehow.
So I googled "ajax soap".
The other day I had two idiotic moments:
Forgot how to expand out a JAR file (is it just unzip? or something special?)
Proceeded to automatically google "how to open jar". I immediately facepalmed at my desk.
you can actually rename jar and war (maybe also ear) files to zip and unzip with any utility
On my comment, swift itself is easy to google.
But then you have Taylor in Swift, good luck :)
A lightweight library for writing HTTP web servers with Swift
This is the most epic thig so far, as in funny software stuff
GraphQL was up there until I trained my search engine that I indeed wanted "graphql" and not "graphical".
But when I was in school I took at look at learning F# and that was a nightmare as there is both and F and F* programming language and we hadn't yet really allowed # to be called "sharp" in search. I'm sure this contributed to me thinking that language was just not for me.
F# is one of the best languages in my opinion
I was writing in Scala at that point and didn't see any real advantages for me personally.
Did you hear about computational expressions? Some go as far as calling then generalised do notation / async await! Those are amazing, maybe some langs have similar features as well, idk, but it's one of the reasons I love f# now
Oh wow! I just looked at some of the docs and examples for those and they look super powerful.
How long have you been writing F#? I think I looked at it in 2011 or 2012.
"SQL Server"... You know, the specific SQL implementation from Microsoft... A little ambiguous for a search engine. Took me a little while to realize it's Transact-SQL, tsql, or ssms that I should put in my queries
Ms-sql? Haven't used it since Windows 2003, but I believe that's what I used to Google.
FYI I've learned that everyone outside of SQL Server uses MSSQL for the abbreviation. That take helps when you start digging into RDS SQL Server π
Yeah whatever works. It was a fun little game trying to Google any issue I had.
I've had a great time trying to search for "manipulating state in children". I was not prepared for the results...
ahh clasic one also how to kill parents without killing childrens
When I was developing for Adobe Experience Manager, it had been rebranded twice.
Microsoft also has this issue with Cosmo DB.
Adobe renamed the template language sightly to something else.
Sight Catalyst was renamed to Adobe Analytics.
In general every time a product gets renamed, it makes it incredibly difficult. Google does not really understand legacy documents vs new documentation, or that rebranding happened.
You end up searching for solutions to problems, swapping out the branded name. Just because the name changed, often the API and issues didnβt.
Naming this is hard as a dev. Marketing switching names on us, makes it even harder on us to adopt the technology.
To make matters worse, once a rename happens, the old language has to be removed from the new documentation and distanced from it. Yet the legacy docs are still present.
Even adding βpreviously called xβ somewhere on the page would help inform google. But instead the old branding is scarce, because they want to move on.
When I first started learning Angular I was using Angular 2 beta. At that time the earlier version was being re-branded as Angularjs (both architectures completely different, of course!) which made Googling a bit hit or miss for a year or so as you could never be immediately sure which one you had the answers for.
Prefixed CSS properties like
-webkit-overflow-scrollingbecause search engines think the first hyphen is a negation πI always have to remember to quote the string after I paste that type of code or PowerShell.
Not exactly "hard", but searching for "Rust tutorial" will bring a bunch of stuff about base building in a survival video game. Especially if you search on youtube.
If you search DuckDuckGo for Rust you'll get Rust, real Rust
And what if you play the game -_-
I get this which is not bad as it's top 3
Gatsby is pretty difficult because "The Great Gatsby" stuff dominates the SEO!
Ahhhh I feel this pain.
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