Re:Ask HN: Why is there no real programming community?
by HankB99 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:56PM
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Github is pretty diffuse to count much as a community, though there are aspects of community about it.
Stackoverflow and kin are very focused on specific questions and are elitist. I've participated for years and find that I cannot add my comments because I don't have sufficient points. And DO NOT post a stupid question or someone will suggest you delete it. (I'm of the opinion that there are no stupid questions but I do see the occasional stupid answer.)
The communities I see are a bit more general than programming. A good example is the Raspberry Pi community. Many of their discussions involve programming but more generally are "how do I do XXX." That community is also fostered by the folks who bring us the RPi.
Some of the more recent languages like Rust and Go seem to be fostering too.
Stackoverflow and kin are very focused on specific questions and are elitist. I've participated for years and find that I cannot add my comments because I don't have sufficient points. And DO NOT post a stupid question or someone will suggest you delete it. (I'm of the opinion that there are no stupid questions but I do see the occasional stupid answer.)
The communities I see are a bit more general than programming. A good example is the Raspberry Pi community. Many of their discussions involve programming but more generally are "how do I do XXX." That community is also fostered by the folks who bring us the RPi.
Some of the more recent languages like Rust and Go seem to be fostering too.