What is Stack Overflow?
Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.
Stack Overflow is a tool in the Question and Answer Sites category of a tech stack.
Who uses Stack Overflow?
Companies
1784 companies reportedly use Stack Overflow in their tech stacks, including Delivery Hero, HENNGE K.K., and Accenture.
Developers
66859 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Stack Overflow.
Stack Overflow Integrations
Julia, Alfred, bip.io, biicode, and Request Metrics are some of the popular tools that integrate with Stack Overflow. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Stack Overflow.
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Decisions about Stack Overflow
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Stack Overflow in their tech stack.
Denys
Software engineer at Typeform · | 13 upvotes · 1.9M views
- Go because it's easy and simple, facilitates collaboration , and also it's fast, scalable, powerful.
- Visual Studio Code because it has one of the most sophisticated Go language support plugins.
- Vim because it's Vim
- Git because it's Git
- Docker and Docker Compose because it's quick and easy to have reproducible builds/tests with them
- Arch Linux because Docker for Mac/Win is a disaster for the human nervous system, and Arch is the coolest Linux distro so far
- Stack Overflow because of Copy-Paste Driven Development
- JavaScript and Python when a something needs to be coded for yesterday
- PhpStorm because it saves me like 300 "Ctrl+F" key strokes a minute
- cURL because terminal all the way
Joshua Dean Küpper
CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · | 1 upvote · 21.9K views
Stack Overflow HAD to be included in this list. We can't count the endless hours stack overflow and its huge community has already saved us and will potentially save us in the future. Stack Overflow is the proof that nearly every problem one may experience, another one has already solved.
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Stack Overflow's Features
- Ask questions, get answers, no distractions
- Get answers to practical, detailed questions
- Tags make it easy to find interesting questions
- You earn reputation when people vote on your posts
- Improve posts by editing or commenting
- Unlock badges for special achievements
- Find a question to answer, or ask your own
Stack Overflow Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Stack Overflow?
Quora
It connects you to everything you want to know about. Quora aims to be the easiest place to write new content and share content from the web. We organize people and their interests so you can find, collect and share the information most valuable to you.
Stack Overflow for Teams
Stack Overflow for Teams is a space for teammates to ask questions and find answers. Sharing company information has never been easier.
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Google Maps
Create rich applications and stunning visualisations of your data, leveraging the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usability of Google Maps and a modern web platform that scales as you grow.
