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Choosing between Stack Overflow and Programmers Stack Exchange?
Or why use one over the other? Does one deal with principles and one with bugs? I'm confused but not lost (yet).
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Choosing between Stack Overflow and Programmers Stack Exchange?
Or why use one over the other? Does one deal with principles and one with bugs? I'm confused but not lost (yet).
From the blog post Introducing programmers.stackexchange.com:
In a nutshell, Stack Overflow is for when you’re front of your compiler or editor working through code issues. Programmers is for when you’re in front of a whiteboard working through higher level conceptual programming issues. Hence the (awesome) whiteboard inspired design!
Stated another way, Stack Overflow questions almost all have actual source code in the questions or answers. It’s much rarer (though certainly OK) for a Programmers question to contain source code.
math
, chemistry
, biology
, parenting
, economy
and whatnot.stackexchange
are way more obvious though, but for Software related questions I think they are fairly close together making their separation quite arguable.
– Matheus Felipe
Apr 21 '15 at 18:58
@Bill's definition is of course the formal and correct one.
But I'm afraid another definition would be "StackOverflow is for when you want your question to be seen by every goddamn programmer in the world. Programmers is for when you want to ask it to the small clique that hangs out there".
It's an arbitrary separation which mainly has the effect of splitting the community so that fewer people are going to see your question.