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Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages by xxs on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:32AM (#26903184)
One of the main issues with stackoverflow is (has been): very few seasoned developers ask questions and even they do, it'd be likely to be unanswered. That skews its user base very heavily towards the younger people.
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Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages by calvinmorrison on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:47AM (#26903364)
Or different styles of learning! Some languages are really good in situ for debugging and solving problems, some are more opaque and require looking things up.

Also 'brown' languages being older and more established, there are plenty of older engineers who RTFM first, look at man pages first, etc then ask questions.

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