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?
Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?
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Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?
#2StackExchange 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.
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#4Free 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
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#5Quora
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#7A pub
Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?
#8StackExchange 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?
#9As 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?
#10IRC. 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