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I don't really see the point of listing specific things as "on topic." Any such list is bound to either be incomplete or have a grey area overlap with things off-topic. I also disagree with some of...
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#2: Post edited
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Moshi
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2020-08-14T20:19:59Z (over 3 years ago)
Removed my comments on Electrical, since it was based on a bad assumption
- I don't really see the point of listing specific things as "on topic." Any such list is bound to either be incomplete or have a grey area overlap with things off-topic.
- I also disagree with some of the things you list as off topic, specifically
> Embedded systems programming, including: microcontroller programming, hardware description languages, RTOS questions, PLC programming. Please ask these questions at https://electrical.codidact.com/ instead.I believe Electrical is purely for hardware questions (someone correct me if I'm wrong), so microcontroller programming would be off-topic there. On the other hand, if/when [this proposal](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/74991) gets off the ground, I would consider making those questions off topic here.- > System/network/server administration.
- I also think that this shouldn't be off topic, for the same reasons mentioned in James's response. While I am not familiar with it, I don't see why it wouldn't be on topic; configuring a server backend for a project seems like software development to me.
- > Questions with artificial requirements that have no practical use, including code obfuscation and code golf.
Over on [Writing](https://writing.codidact.com/), we have a category for Challenges. I don't see why we can't have a similar Code Golf/Programming Challenges category here as well. (in fact, I might suggest it at some point)- <hr>
- Finally, I want to address what you mentioned at the beginning
- > It is for now an "everything programming" site. I hope we can narrow it down a lot further.
- This is an "everything programming" site because that is what it was founded as. Eventually, there will be more specific sites and we might start asking people to post those questions elsewhere, but until then, this will continue to be an umbrella site for any type of programming.
- I don't really see the point of listing specific things as "on topic." Any such list is bound to either be incomplete or have a grey area overlap with things off-topic.
- I also disagree with some of the things you list as off topic, specifically
- > System/network/server administration.
- I also think that this shouldn't be off topic, for the same reasons mentioned in James's response. While I am not familiar with it, I don't see why it wouldn't be on topic; configuring a server backend for a project seems like software development to me.
- > Questions with artificial requirements that have no practical use, including code obfuscation and code golf.
- Over on [Writing](https://writing.codidact.com/), we have a category for Challenges. I don't see why we can't have a similar Code Golf/Programming Challenges category here as well. (UPDATE: I suggested it [here](https://software.codidact.com/questions/277263))
- <hr>
- Finally, I want to address what you mentioned at the beginning
- > It is for now an "everything programming" site. I hope we can narrow it down a lot further.
- This is an "everything programming" site because that is what it was founded as. Eventually, there will be more specific sites and we might start asking people to post those questions elsewhere, but until then, this will continue to be an umbrella site for any type of programming.
#1: Initial revision
by
Moshi
·
2020-08-12T21:38:42Z (over 3 years ago)
I don't really see the point of listing specific things as "on topic." Any such list is bound to either be incomplete or have a grey area overlap with things off-topic. I also disagree with some of the things you list as off topic, specifically > Embedded systems programming, including: microcontroller programming, hardware description languages, RTOS questions, PLC programming. Please ask these questions at https://electrical.codidact.com/ instead. I believe Electrical is purely for hardware questions (someone correct me if I'm wrong), so microcontroller programming would be off-topic there. On the other hand, if/when [this proposal](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/74991) gets off the ground, I would consider making those questions off topic here. > System/network/server administration. I also think that this shouldn't be off topic, for the same reasons mentioned in James's response. While I am not familiar with it, I don't see why it wouldn't be on topic; configuring a server backend for a project seems like software development to me. > Questions with artificial requirements that have no practical use, including code obfuscation and code golf. Over on [Writing](https://writing.codidact.com/), we have a category for Challenges. I don't see why we can't have a similar Code Golf/Programming Challenges category here as well. (in fact, I might suggest it at some point) <hr> Finally, I want to address what you mentioned at the beginning > It is for now an "everything programming" site. I hope we can narrow it down a lot further. This is an "everything programming" site because that is what it was founded as. Eventually, there will be more specific sites and we might start asking people to post those questions elsewhere, but until then, this will continue to be an umbrella site for any type of programming.