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Pros of Locust
Pros of Stack Overflow
  • 15
    Hackable
  • 11
    Supports distributed
  • 7
    Open source
  • 6
    Easy to use
  • 6
    Easy to setup
  • 4
    Fast
  • 2
    Test Anything
  • 257
    Scary smart community
  • 206
    Knows all
  • 142
    Voting system
  • 134
    Good questions
  • 83
    Good SEO
  • 22
    Addictive
  • 14
    Tight focus
  • 10
    Share and gain knowledge
  • 7
    Useful
  • 3
    Fast loading
  • 2
    Gamification
  • 1
    Knows everyone
  • 1
    Experts share experience and answer questions
  • 1
    Stack overflow to developers As google to net surfers
  • 1
    Questions answered quickly
  • 1
    No annoying ads
  • 1
    No spam
  • 1
    Fast community response
  • 1
    Good moderators
  • 1
    Quick answers from users
  • 1
    Good answers
  • 1
    User reputation ranking
  • 1
    Efficient answers
  • 1
    Leading developer community

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Cons of Locust
Cons of Stack Overflow
  • 1
    Bad design
  • 3
    Not welcoming to newbies
  • 3
    Unfair downvoting
  • 3
    Unfriendly moderators
  • 3
    No opinion based questions
  • 3
    Mean users
  • 2
    Limited to types of questions it can accept

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What is Locust?

Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.

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.

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