[Discuss] seeking places for good discussion about GNU/Linux programming topics

[bill.n1vux at gmail.com (Bill Ricker)]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 18:46 Daniel M Gessel <daniel at syntheticblue.com>
wrote:

> After retiring, ... starting up some GNU/Linux programming ... open source
> project.
>

Trebled congrats!

I'm looking for lively and welcoming discussion boards to chat about
> programming topics, with a focus on C coding. ...
>

It's so long since C was my regular beat that my old haunts are gone or
rather quiet.
There's some q&a structured discussion on stackoverflow, but I don't think
that's quite what you're asking for.
For Wayland, perhaps the Ubuntu hosted forums are best? IDK.

>
An (almost) unrelated topic is alternatives to GitHub for git hosting.
> GitHub has nice features and a large community of developers, but I'd
> like a backup plan.
>

GitLab is the (near) workalike,  and can import GitHub projects easily.
Good backup plan, and could be primary.
I'm using both, and also privately hosted repos, on different projects.