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BeyondCritics
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Recommendation for C++ Programming Forums?

Post by BeyondCritics »

What is a good programmers forum for C++ coders (besides this one of course...), where you can discuss or read about technical C++ problems?
Obviously there are plenty of forums attached to everything, but which one is the forum where the top specialist are proud to post?
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I don't know a forum of the kind that you are looking for. It is not easy for a forum to include the wide range from beginners to experts.

https://www.google.com/
First try is Google. Many problems are already diskussed and solved. This will often lead to one of the next addresses:

http://www.cplusplus.com/
This is a good starting point and reference for C++ syntax. They also have a forum link on the start page. I have not tested that.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/
They have millions of questions and answers.

https://isocpp.org/
The official standard C++ page where the real language experts are. The links on that page will often lead you to other interesting C++ videos, vlogs and blogs.
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As you yourself observed it, this obviously doesn't answers the question, but thanks for your time anyway.
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Harald wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:05 am http://www.cplusplus.com/
This is a good starting point and reference for C++ syntax. They also have a forum link on the start page. I have not tested that.
en.cppreference.com is usually much more precise than cplusplus.com, without being harder to understand.
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Sesse wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:09 am
Harald wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:05 am http://www.cplusplus.com/
This is a good starting point and reference for C++ syntax. They also have a forum link on the start page. I have not tested that.
en.cppreference.com is usually much more precise than cplusplus.com, without being harder to understand.
Yep, this is their intention: https://en.cppreference.com/w/Cppreference:FAQ
What is the purpose of this site?
[...]
The primary objective is to have a good specification of C and C++
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There is nothing great. https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/ is ok if you want to talk about the standard.
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mmt wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 7:23 pm There is nothing great. https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/ is ok if you want to talk about the standard.
That seems to be a good one, thanks.
Likely it has something to do with the social control feature of reddit, which encourages quality postings.
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BeyondCritics wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 6:10 am
mmt wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 7:23 pm There is nothing great. https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/ is ok if you want to talk about the standard.
That seems to be a good one, thanks.
Likely it has something to do with the social control feature of reddit, which encourages quality postings.
Most of the moderators of r/cpp are also C++ Committee members.
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More than 20 years ago I used comp.lang.c & comp.lang.c++ news groups from the Netscape mail :)
I don't know if they are still alive, but I liked those groups a lot.
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