Honestly, meme communities' comments could have some of the best in-depth discussions. Memes tend to provide a great launching point for discussions. A sort of prompt that everyone can coalesce around to talk in a serious manner about the subject.

/r/dndmemes and /r/programmerhumor were two great examples.

[–] swab148@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they're still pretty good on Lemmy!

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Omg I didn’t even realise which community I was in as I made that comment!

But yeah, this one and !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network are both great.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are serious programming subs. However, I find that those tend to debate/discuss solutions/approaches moreso than the actual code itself, although that's not unheard of either. For actual coding questions, I want to say there's a "learn programming" sub that has those, but they're pretty strict about just doing people's homework for them (those posts tend to be pretty obvious).

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where would you post them?

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

stack overflow

[–] h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DUPLICATED, CLOSED, etc.

Joke aside, for an open question I'd prefer posting on Reddit/Lemmy/forums to have an open answer.

SO is too strict on its policy.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

for an open question

That's clearly not the type of "programming question" mentioned in OP tho

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh god

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

There there. I'm not quite god himself yet although I have over 1000 points on stack overflow.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The validation system is extremely off-putting. I have been working on some specialized tools for years so I could have answered some very precise questions with good confidence. However, the system was always there to detrust me and I was not going to spend hours to go through their hoops for an answer that takes me 10 min to redact. So instead I'll post it on Reddit or a gist hopping people will be able to discover it.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Off-putting it is. Still an important tool for finding actual answers I need for my work.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

Useful for me too. But I wish it was more opened for people who would just want to answer a couple of times a year, community can sort it out.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

for C and Python: libera.chat

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Niche professional subs under 100k members can be very good quality. That's the only thing that is hard for me to find a replacement for.