I'm a developer who likes testing first, iterative processes, and refactoring, and I care about quality. I speak both C and Ruby with some facility, and enjoy both, which confuses some people.
Unfortunately, I find that all too often the "truth" that emerges on SO is just someone's opinionated declarations, or something that's frozen in time and irrelevant or harmful three months later, or riddled with gotchas and bad implementation details that can lead people astray. I think SO used to be better at being what it is (exclusionary or otherwise), but has been bogged down by moderation bureaucracy, groupthink, and the calcification of "best practices" that admit no improvement.
On dev.to so far, I feel like there's a sense of hope and wonder, with a nice dash of helpfully cynical recognition of the things we (as developers in general, not just in dev.to or SO) desperately need to improve. Of course, my experience with dev.to is pretty scant so far. We'll see how my opinion of it evolves over time.
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Unfortunately, I find that all too often the "truth" that emerges on SO is just someone's opinionated declarations, or something that's frozen in time and irrelevant or harmful three months later, or riddled with gotchas and bad implementation details that can lead people astray. I think SO used to be better at being what it is (exclusionary or otherwise), but has been bogged down by moderation bureaucracy, groupthink, and the calcification of "best practices" that admit no improvement.
On dev.to so far, I feel like there's a sense of hope and wonder, with a nice dash of helpfully cynical recognition of the things we (as developers in general, not just in dev.to or SO) desperately need to improve. Of course, my experience with dev.to is pretty scant so far. We'll see how my opinion of it evolves over time.