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I think this could be a great application to debate software technology choices or best practices, discussion types often locked on StackExchange sites as opinion-based [1].

Many discussions could benefit from the breakdown of arguments into individual premises like "this language supports concurrency natively" and "this language has been in production at X companies for Y years". And, since users can pose counter arguments, it's OK if different users end up at different conclusions.

[1] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252854/why-doesnt-s...