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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

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Some relevant history for consideration (not an answer about specific scope boundaries): When we started to discuss a programming or software community, we were concerned about premature fragmenta...

posted 7d ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2024-11-14T14:52:19Z (7 days ago)
Some relevant history for consideration (not an answer about specific scope boundaries):

When we started to discuss a programming or software community, we were concerned about premature fragmentation.  We had a lot of [discussion](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/276139), which we ultimately resolved as a single community open to spin-offs later:

> We resolved this by creating Software Development with broad scope. There's even a Code Review category. If the community grows to a size that's hard to manage and subsets want to spin off later, we can do that. 

This isn't a nebulous "we could make other communities, I suppose"; if this community identifies scope that would work better as a separate community -- or a separate category *within* this community -- we will work together with y'all to make it happen.

(Codidact does have a separate [Code Golf](https://codegolf.codidact.com/) community.)