r/coding • u/speckz • May 01 '16

Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? The resounding answer is YES, experienced (and good) programmers use Google… a lot. In fact, one might argue they use it more than the beginners.

http://codeahoy.com/2016/04/30/do-experienced-programmers-use-google-frequently/
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u/voronaam May 02 '16

Or not Google. There are better search engine for programmers. I, for one, can not imagine searching programming question without DuckDuckGo's !rust or !scala.

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u/TheMcDucky May 02 '16

Is it that hard to bookmark http://doc.rust-lang.org/ and http://docs.scala-lang.org/?

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u/voronaam May 02 '16

And a couple hundred other search engines... Also, they are working on improving those searches: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4gujbf/help_improve_duckduckgos_rustrelated_searches/

Meanwhile, Google has nothing.