I feel like dev.to is a much more inviting environment for asking questions. The status quo here is that it doesn't matter if you are a newbie or a longtime dev and it is expected that everyone is on their best behavior. Me likey that! SO/SE is filled with a lot of grumpy people and overmoderation. They tend to take a more "Wikipedia" stance to the content: If it's been asked already, it'll get downvoted, shut down, etc. Fortunately and unfortunately for SE/SO, most questions have been asked. The more esoteric questions require serious understanding of the subject matter and therefore someone who might ask the question is already an expert in the area and generally doesn't need to ask for help.
That said, the SO search engine while typing in a "new question" is pretty solid. If you really can't find an answer to your question via SO/SE via Google search, start asking a "new question" on SO (or relevant SE site), type in your question as if you were going to actually ask the question, and wait for the results to pop in. For whatever reason, the "new question" search engine results are generally better than the main SO/SE search engine. I'll tweak the question a little until it summarizes the content I was planning to write in the body. Sometimes I'll end up starting to write the details in the body and I'll see something pop into the results that hadn't shown up before and I'll land on a page that answers the question. 95% of the time, I can find what I was looking for via this method and don't need to proceed further.
It's the other 5% of the time that drives me up the wall. Most, if not nearly all, questions have been asked in some form or other. It's when I need to find an answer to a question that someone asked a long time ago, has been indexed by Google, and there is no answer available.
Or there is at least one response but none of the responses actually answers the question.
I agree to this comment... I love how Dev.to is really friendly especially on the side of beginner programmer. StackOverflow is really not friendly when it comes to beginner programming, that is why most developers search some related problems than posting the problems in SO
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I feel like dev.to is a much more inviting environment for asking questions. The status quo here is that it doesn't matter if you are a newbie or a longtime dev and it is expected that everyone is on their best behavior. Me likey that! SO/SE is filled with a lot of grumpy people and overmoderation. They tend to take a more "Wikipedia" stance to the content: If it's been asked already, it'll get downvoted, shut down, etc. Fortunately and unfortunately for SE/SO, most questions have been asked. The more esoteric questions require serious understanding of the subject matter and therefore someone who might ask the question is already an expert in the area and generally doesn't need to ask for help.
That said, the SO search engine while typing in a "new question" is pretty solid. If you really can't find an answer to your question via SO/SE via Google search, start asking a "new question" on SO (or relevant SE site), type in your question as if you were going to actually ask the question, and wait for the results to pop in. For whatever reason, the "new question" search engine results are generally better than the main SO/SE search engine. I'll tweak the question a little until it summarizes the content I was planning to write in the body. Sometimes I'll end up starting to write the details in the body and I'll see something pop into the results that hadn't shown up before and I'll land on a page that answers the question. 95% of the time, I can find what I was looking for via this method and don't need to proceed further.
It's the other 5% of the time that drives me up the wall. Most, if not nearly all, questions have been asked in some form or other. It's when I need to find an answer to a question that someone asked a long time ago, has been indexed by Google, and there is no answer available.
Or there is at least one response but none of the responses actually answers the question.
I agree to this comment... I love how Dev.to is really friendly especially on the side of beginner programmer. StackOverflow is really not friendly when it comes to beginner programming, that is why most developers search some related problems than posting the problems in SO