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The main difference between Stack Exchange and Codidact is that SE loves to spawn off hundreds of sites with lots of overlapping scopes, whereas Codiact has the category system, which means that contents like for example AI and GenAI could exist on the same site. 

The general idea about software.codidact.com is that it contains questions asked by programmers, that in turn require a programmer to answer them.

Questions that would be on-topic at sites that were proposed and not yet launched can be asked at proposals.codidact.com, by using the corresponding site proposal tag.

Questions that have no direct match could ultimately lead to a new proposal at proposals.codidact.com, in case one believes that there is  potential for a community of many active users.

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As of now, this would be the status of the corresponding Stack Exchange sites:

- Stack Overflow  
  software.codidact.com is mostly a corresponding site, except for some details:

  - Embedded programming, HDL language questions, PLC programming etc should be asked at electrical.codidact.com.
  - Office suite questions (excel formulas and similar) should be asked at powerusers.codidact.com
  - Bash script and similar have overlapping scope between software.codidact.com and linux.codidact.com.

- Game Development  
  software.codidact.com for now. There is a proposal for a [video game site](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/288625), but there is no consensus yet about whether it should cover game development or not.

- Software Engineering  
  software.codidact.com

- Code Review  
  software.codidact.com, use the Code Review question category.

- Code Golf  
  codegolf.codidact.com

- Computational Science  
  No directly corresponding site. Depending on the nature of the question, it might be on topic at software.codidact.com, math.codidact.com or powerusers.codidact.com. Some questions might not be on-topic anywhere.

- Computer Science  
  software.codidact.com for now. There is a [Computer Science site proposal](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/290564).

- Data Science  
  No directly corresponding site. See comments above below Computational Science. There is a [Machine Learning site proposal](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289179) and an [AI tech site proposal](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289124).

- Open Source  
  No directly corresponding site. There is an [Open Source site proposal](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289676).

- Artificial Intelligence  
  No directly corresponding site. There is an [AI tech site proposal](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289124).

- DevOps  
  No directly corresponding site. May or may not be on-topic at software.codidact.com or powerusers.codidact.com.

- Operations Research  
  No directly corresponding site.

- Programming Language Design and Implementation  
  software.codidact.com

"Tangental sites":

- Software Quality Assurance & Testing  
  software.codidact.com

- Cryptography  
  software.codidact.com or math.codidact.com depending on the question.

- Reverse Engineering  
  No directly corresponding site. May or may not be on-topic at software.codidact.com (software) or electrical.codidact.com (firmware or hardware)

- Software Recommendations  
  No directly corresponding site. powerusers.codidact.com accepts some of these questions. 

- Arduino  
  electrical.codidact.com accepts these questions but with some restrictions. 

  Questions regarding a microcontroller boards or firmware are on-topic. Questions regarding Arduino-specific terms or usage are generally off-topic. Good questions are accompanied with schematics and datasheets. Bad questions are accompanied by "picture of breadboard wires" diagrams from strange Arduino drawing programs.

- Computer Graphics  
  No directly corresponding site. May or may not be on-topic at software.codidact.com (graphics programming), photography.codidact.com (video/photo editing etc) or powerusers.codidact.com (hardware graphic card questions).

- Retrocomputing  
  No directly corresponding site. May or may not be on-topic at software.codidact.com or electrical.codidact.com.

- Internet of Things  
  software.codidact.com or electrical.codidact.com. 

- Computer Science Educators  
  software.codidact.com

- Quantum Computing  
  No directly corresponding site.

- GenAI  
  No directly corresponding site. There is an [AI tech site proposal](https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289124).