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(joke in the title stolen from a redditor)

Context: some Rust kid vandalized cppreference.com today.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A toxic community won't help you in good faith when you're running into issues, and this makes it harder to develop using a language with a toxic community.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

idk, how do I contact "the community" when I have an issue in the first place? All I know of is StackOverflow, and they're honestly toxic enough to make me never ask questions there in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, and answers on StackOverflow about languages that have toxic communities are worse than answers on StackOverflow about languages with less assholeish communities in my experience. As I mean it, StackOverflow posts tagged with the language (and probably even more so those posts' responses) qualify as part of "the community".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Touche. I personally found Discord users to be helpful and welcoming, but that was moreso for libraries and not languages.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Documentation is not a community though.