Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by endur » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 2:06 AM UTC

StackOverflow is about solving people's problems. Is there a place with less strict rules? Where do you go to ask more open-ended questions?

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by kazinator » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 2:55 AM UTC

StackExchange itself has one such as site: programmers.stackexchange.com. That's about programming-related questions different from StackOverflow.

There is also CS StackeExchange for those open-ended questions that are in the area of theory.

Personally, I recommend good old Usenet. comp.programming newsgroup and others.

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by pmiller2 » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 3:00 AM UTC

https://reddit.com/r/learnprogramming maybe?

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by quincyla » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 3:02 AM UTC

Free Code Camp's forums exist specifically for discussing programming-related questions - literally anything related to programming, open source, or getting a developer job: http://forum.freecodecamp.com

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by ed1ted » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 3:02 AM UTC

Quora

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 3:02 AM UTC

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Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by vitaut » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 3:04 AM UTC

A pub

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by manojlds » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 3:19 AM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #2

StackExchange itself has one such as site: programmers.stackexchange.com. That's about programming-related questions different from StackOverflow. There is also CS StackeExchange for those open-ended questions that are in the area of theory. Personally, I recommend good old Usenet. comp.programming newsgroup and others.

Is this answer being down voted? Programmers SE is a good suggestion, and allows more open ended questions.

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by charlesism » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 3:24 AM UTC

As far as I know, the internet lacks an adequate solution for this. If it existed, it would have enough users that we would all already know about it.

Instead there's just a fragmented bunch of relatively small forums, group chats, mailing lists, etc.

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by randomdrake » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 3:25 AM UTC

IRC. Many projects have something on Freenode[1] in some capacity. Additionally, there are programming channels for lots of specializations. Some channels have rules, but they are mostly about civilized conversation and RTFM kinds of things.

[1] - https://freenode.net