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Discussion on: Advanced devs and beginner devs can co-exist harmoniously. It's not rocket science.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

And a fine job the lot of you did!

Though I wouldn't classify dev.to as a SO replacement (except maybe the #explainlikeimfive tag).

Maybe one day we'll have a newbie friendly Q&A website minus the toxic culture where we can all learn and help each other grow.

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

This site is in many ways a better alternative to question sites like the Software Engineering stack exchange site. Someone can ask quite conceptual questions and have a (small but increasing) chance to actually get a conversation out of it. Instead of being chastised for asking too broad or off-topic of a question -- and this often due to moderator ignorance on the subject more than the question.

SO itself is still amenable to very factual questions. "How do I fix error XYZ123?" or "Why does Dictionary not guarantee item order?" But all others will be scolded.

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Ben Halpern

Yeah, had a lot of these same ideas.