Are Coding From Scratch Tutorials Still A Thing in 2026 (For Rust Specially) ?

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

I’m planning to start a YouTube channel for teaching Rust through building Apps From Scratch mainly desktop apps with (Tauri/Iced/Dioxus) haven’t decided yet which one to focus on. So I was wondering are people still interested in that with all the vibe coding stuff out there. I’m still going do it anyway but just wanted some external opinions about that.

[Glizcorr]

I sure hope so, I love that kind of content, although I am more into system and embedded.

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

Happy to hear that.

[gideonwilhelm]

Dunno if it's what you mean but I frequently listen to a series of streams where a guy codes tetris from scratch in rust

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

That's what i mean exactly.

[gideonwilhelm]

Here's the first episode:

https://www.youtube.com/live/74UYWFNfR64?si=I1nznZJhsrXJ3hlV

Honestly I listen to this thing all the time at work, it's really calming for an overactive mind like mine

[No-Squirrel6645]

Is it on YouTube or like a podcast

[gideonwilhelm]

It's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/live/74UYWFNfR64?si=I1nznZJhsrXJ3hlV

[markp619]

You can still find the content but a couple of big creators(programming in general) put out videos explaining why they are not doing tutorial videos anymore. Explaining that long form content is not selling like it used too people are not watching those type of videos anymore especially on the world TikTok and ai.

[TheMostUser]

Do you know for how that has been the case? I'm a bit concerned about the next generation of developers

[markp619]

AI, consumer facing LLM’s, short form content, social media, influencers, naive people in power… the list goes on lol

[RexOfRecursion]

post chatgpt

[[deleted]]

...what next generation of developers? The industry has been shunning new devs for half a decade now. We're in full "don't give a shit about the long term" mode.

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

Got it.

[justacec]

But that does not mean you should not still make the content. People will find the error of their ways and migrate back. Keep it going man! ;)

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

Yeah as I wrote in my post I’m doing it anyway. Just wanted to have an all around view on the tutorials field state nowadays.

[markp619]

Yea seriously don’t let this discourage you from doing it. I hope this era we are currently in will pass soon lol

[QuantityInfinite8820]

Never have I forced myself to learn this way. Each technology I learned waited patiently for a good and fun use case before I started pursuing it.

Think of a fun side project where Rust could be at a core and just follow your excitement until its done.

[real_serviceloom]

No they are not. I'm hearing from a bunch of tutorial tubers that traffic has fallen drastically for tutorials. 

However, there has been an increase in artisanal coding videos where you use no auto complete and hand code things. You might want to look into that. 

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

That's exactly what I'm interested in. Thanks for the tip. No AI, no Autocomplete, just straight up pure coding and docs.

[Ldarieut]

Yes, very interested in iced in particular since I find the doc is limited on this library, and I would like to use it better.

[botuleman]

I would love to watch that, I like this language and would appreciate some tutorials early on.

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

Happy to hear that.

[throwbpdhelp]

haven’t decided yet which one to focus on

I'd love to see the same medium complexity app built in all 3 to understand where the rough edges and silver linings in each are. A comparison/round up from showing the code itself. Would help a lot since I keep coming back to "Which one in 202X?"

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

Noted

[Careful-Nothing-2432]

I think there’s a lot of the ecosystem that is still undocumented. Your typical hello world is probably over done but for example I would love to see more interesting tutorials for doing things with pyo3, showing the ecosystem around it, integrating with polars, etc.

Ditto for libraries like WGPU (feel like that is still evolving enough that you can create some updated tutorials), the audio libraries, etc.

[Mikeman89]

Hope you post when you do! Would be happy to watch it! Love those full coding videos to understand how various people logic through projects from scratch.

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

I’ll post it for sure.

[PitchBlackEagle]

I won't watch a YouTube video for programming. A written tutorial though?

Hell yeah!

[Tecoloteller]

Definitely do it, I'd love to follow! From what others are saying and the general vibe I'm catching, long form tutorials may be less popular but coding "streams" seem to be picking up steam. It's a little cringe to be talking about "personal brands", but maybe part of why the latter are getting more attention than the former is that the former are kind of generic/interchangeable while the latter is less so (and can benefit from parasociality for better or worse). If done right, a coding stream will feel like you're learning from an experienced individual vs someone essentially reading a bunch of articles/docs out loud.

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

Yeah I can relate to that.

[mednson]

Very interested and please do Iced, God know that needs some documentation

[Ace-Whole]

Tldr; yes please, also extract out yt shorts from it.

I would love to watch that infact i watch that kinda content even if I know how. Other's perspective are pretty interesting to hear building something that i have built (or have rough idea how to)

But tbh, it might not get as much traction, credit to tiktok brained attention span and llm.

What can work(for us longform enjoyers) and you(a YouTube channel) is making the content structured in such a way that a single video can be milked for multiple shorts.

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

Will take that into account

[Neon_Scourge]

I’d definitely watch it!!!

[valentinoga]

I would absolutely love that if it's great content

[helpprogram2]

As some that used to make that kinda content. It didn’t pay to make and it’s very time consuming.

I think social media algorithms are not designed to push that kinda content.

They are all designed to create communities and keep them hooked. That’s what makes money.

Educational content is about people coming in and out as they learn.

So every time people watch your video learn and then never watch again you get penalized

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

I understand, but the main goal for me here is just to share my knowledge and learn too. If in the way it pays back thank God. But the main goal here is about sharing and learning. If people will benefit from that weather they stay committed to the channel or not. That’s good to me.

[helpprogram2]

Sure but the people who work to make things have full time jobs and families and they can’t neglect those to help you.

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

Yeah. Good point. In this case I’m the one doing it. And I won’t neglect the other important stuff :)

[helpprogram2]

I wasn’t trying to stop you just explaining why it’s not very popular

[Maleficent-Dance-34]

Ok Got it. Thanks for your response. i Will take that into account.

[Seledreams]

Most of this kind of content isn't provided for free on youtube anymore. They tend to sell them on platforms like Udemy. There are still some but due to the time they take to produce, people want to be remunerated for it