Code golf questions are a perennial favorite on Stack Overflow, but are under constant threat of being closed for being off topic or not a real question. Now that Programmers is live, do Code Golf and Code Challenge questions have a home here?
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I don't support this, but in the interest of completeness, note that the FAQ says code golf does belong here.
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Honestly, I don't want to see them here or on Stack Overflow. I think that there should be a code golf stack exchange for them. They don't belong here because they aren't subjective - someone can either write a shorter program or you have written the shortest program to do that task. They don't belong on Stack Overflow because they aren't an explicit question. |
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Have any code golfers considered starting a new SE? "Code Games," maybe? |
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This isn't just about subjective questions - but about forming a home for questions that don't fit well on StackOverflow. I think that they would be better here. |
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I'm kind of in the middle. On SO there is a huge community, many people following On here, this is more of the idea's of programming then actual code writing. I want to come here when the only questions in my skillset are about things I havn't use yet. I don't want to come here and see more code. On the other side, there are tons of close happy, downvote happy people that will close anything that's not a specific question, argue the heck of it, and then have others drag the squabbles to meta. The 3k+ community seems to be split on the issue. However if we move them to here, most questions will become unanswered because we don't have as large of a community. We would essentially kill code golf for the entire S[EO] network. |
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Would a separate SE site with only Code Games have succes? Maybe, maybe not... Is there enough interest in such separate SE site? Maybe, maybe not... I see this site as a pause for developers that want to improve themselves, know about other developers or just have plain fun; for this last reason I see that Code Golfs fit if there aren't too much of them. Maybe people should first mail some Diamond moderator(s) with a proposal to let it be checked so it is sufficiently good and if it's the right time to be posted before it may be released to the Code Golfers... But our current FAQ states discussions in "subjective discussions on software development", Code Golf doesn't fall under discussion but some questions I've seen at the site currently don't fall under that term either (list posts for example) so I don't see this to be an issue. A lot of users will see this site as the subjective counter-part of Stack Overflow, Regarding Thomas Owen's answer:
Maybe the Code Golfs should be made sufficiently complex to allow for enough room to improve... |
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