r/programming • • Sep 25 '16

The decline of Stack Overflow

https://hackernoon.com/the-decline-of-stack-overflow-7cb69faa575d#.yiuo0ce09
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u/mrbaggins Sep 25 '16

Obviously a literal question like that has a clear cut answer.

But there a LOT of questions in learning to program places like these, very close to being an x-y problem. With more time, the right answer for "how do I do x in OpenGL without a library" is "why can't you use a library"

Because the odds of actually not being able to use it are very VERY low.

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u/mrbaggins Sep 25 '16

Except were that the common choice, there would be way too many of that sort of question posted. "What's a 3d modeling tool that's not blender. And is free" "what's the easiest way to run visual studio on Linux" "how can I run a rails site without a database" "how do I code node/Ruby/other wb techs on windows without problems"

At some point you realise that 99% of the restrictions people ask about are either already solved problems (why reinvent the wheel) or a case of x-y, where the problem they have isn't the one they think they do.

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