Ask HN: How do you decide your learning goals?

[abdnafees]

For example: How do you decide if you need to learn something that is trending such as Rust or NLP?

[DamonHD]

Wait for some of the initial novelty rush to fade and see if people keep using it... Maybe a year... By which time the tools have generally improved and many questions can be resolved with a search engine if the tech/thing is any use! B^>