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Looking for less toxic alternatives to StackOverflow (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ZILtoid1991@kbin.social to c/programming@kbin.social

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No answers, but a lot of downvoting and toxicity around pROPer QueSTioNS. I got reminded why I haven't gone to that site for a very long time.

(Also if you have some better tutorials for the win32 API than what MS has, then I would appreciate that. No, I don't need a bloated library, that does things, but poorly, and has similar documentation issues with functions everyone assumes are called between the two main ones.)

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[–] andyburke@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://kbin.social/m/snippets needs you!

The idea is a federated repo of code snippets, and we need more people to help drive it!

[–] binaryphile@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Don't have experience with this but saw it recently -- it's open source, but not activitypub: https://codidact.com/

[–] rastilin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Depending on how specific your questions are, I'd get a ChatGPT subscription. It can give example code as well as explaining concepts, even for specific libraries, and you can ask follow up questions if you need more details. I gave it a few Win32 questions and it seems to have some knowledge.