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If people really wanted or needed those lists, someone would create a site for that purpose. The reality is that such a site would fail terribly, because those
by Latty 10y ago
If people really wanted or needed those lists, someone would create a site for that purpose. The reality is that such a site would fail terribly, because those kinds of lists are opinions people won't agree on, and go out of date incredibly quickly. If you search for such a thing, you'll find blog posts from people giving such lists, and most of them will be useless because they are out of date.
StackOverflow is a good resource precisely because it's curated and maintained, including rejecting content that doesn't work on the site. Just like Wikipedia doesn't allow you to have your own page listing your opinions.
- toyg 10y ago> those kinds of lists are opinions people won't agree on That's why you need voting, same as traditional SO. > and go out of date incredibly quickly I can see that being a problem -- but it's a problem even for regular SO questions, since languages evolve (the best way to do X in python 2.3 is not the same as in python 2.4, let alone 3.x). You could simply timestamp votes and progressively devalue old ones, like tajen suggested. > If you search for such a thing, you'll find blog posts [...] useless because they are out of date Absolutely. Blog posts and wikis are terrible at keeping up, they are fundamentally static and require a lot of work. For example Fullstack Python [1] is nice but it's probably an immense effort. It would be nice to have some semiautomated way to highlight stacks that can self-maintain and stay relevant. [1] http://www.fullstackpython.com http://www.fullstackpython.com