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Who post programming questions on Reddit? Are you looking for answers in meme format?
reddit was/is much more than a meme site
Honestly, meme communities' comments could have some of the best in-depth discussions. Memes tend to provide a great launching point for discussions. A sort of prompt that everyone can coalesce around to talk in a serious manner about the subject.
/r/dndmemes and /r/programmerhumor were two great examples.
And they're still pretty good on Lemmy!
Omg I didn’t even realise which community I was in as I made that comment!
But yeah, this one and [email protected] are both great.
There are serious programming subs. However, I find that those tend to debate/discuss solutions/approaches moreso than the actual code itself, although that's not unheard of either. For actual coding questions, I want to say there's a "learn programming" sub that has those, but they're pretty strict about just doing people's homework for them (those posts tend to be pretty obvious).
Where would you post them?
stack overflow
DUPLICATED, CLOSED, etc.
Joke aside, for an open question I'd prefer posting on Reddit/Lemmy/forums to have an open answer.
SO is too strict on its policy.
That's clearly not the type of "programming question" mentioned in OP tho
Oh god
There there. I'm not quite god himself yet although I have over 1000 points on stack overflow.
The validation system is extremely off-putting. I have been working on some specialized tools for years so I could have answered some very precise questions with good confidence. However, the system was always there to detrust me and I was not going to spend hours to go through their hoops for an answer that takes me 10 min to redact. So instead I'll post it on Reddit or a gist hopping people will be able to discover it.
Off-putting it is. Still an important tool for finding actual answers I need for my work.
Useful for me too. But I wish it was more opened for people who would just want to answer a couple of times a year, community can sort it out.
for C and Python: libera.chat
Niche professional subs under 100k members can be very good quality. That's the only thing that is hard for me to find a replacement for.