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Nico Zerpa (he/him) • Edited

A couple of months ago, I realised that I don't use Stack Overflow that often. The thing is, generally, I don't search "How to do X task", but "What's the best way to do X task". Particularly, I look for ways to do things using native APIs, instead of coding the solution myself.

The solutions from SO that I get do offer me a way to do the task, but these are answers from 5-10 years ago. That isn't useful for me because the solutions might use deprecated features, or there may be a newer, native alternative to do the same thing.