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by MisterTea 16 days ago
Agreed. I used it a bit around 2010 when I was doing a lot of C# for custom GUI stuff. I also had a lot of help on there for Linux/Unix questions and AWK programming. There were a decent amount of smart people on SO, one who stuck out was an EE who gave lots of solid advice on PCB design (Ollie Lanthorp I think) in the electronics forum. But over times it felt that it became hostile and questions closed as duplicate when they were asking about specific edge cases. Once I moved out of programming I stopped using it though I still find a nugget of info on it from time to time.