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Just an honest (legal) concern:

Is stack overflow ok with having their answers inside an IDE? This decreases the number of pageviews on SO for each installed client. Is that something you guys checked?

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StackOverflow comments are Creative Commons, with the code licensed under MIT:

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https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-l...

Both are attribution-required.

Of course nobody cares about legality. Caring about it is not The Start-up Way.

Bonus again if you get a major snippet from a third party library with an incompatible license.

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