I started this project last Tuesday to scratch my own itch. It's basically copy/pasteable code snippets for common tasks in many languages.
Like many developers I work in different languages and often forget syntax or how to do simple things. I find if I'm working in a big codebase I can usually get comfortable quickly, but it's when I'm faced with a blank page in my editor I think... err how do I do this again?
I don't see any "about this site", "who created this site", etc. I don't see any information about who authored a particular snippet. Perhaps more information is available if you log in? But it seems like it should be possible to evaluate the trustworthiness of a site _before_ sharing information with it, so I don't feel comfortable interacting with the site as it is.
I stated elsewhere in this thread but the project is only 6 days old. I haven't had time to code up an /about page, reputation system and user profile pages just yet.
Some questions:
- Is the project open-source?
- Why no github signin?
- How do you search for X but only in Y language?
- How are you going to deal with duplication?
- Will you be doing a full 2D spread of combinations? E.g. writing to a file is pretty common - perhaps you can create a relationship between languages so that you can see how it's done in other languages from the same page.
- How will you handle cases where there are multiple ways of doing things?
- Is search broken? "Write to a file" is the first entry there without searching, but searching for "write to a file" shows no entries. - How will you handle cases where environment matters? E.g. writing a file in Javascript is going to be different between web browsers and Node.js, and force-inlining a function is going to be different between clang and msvc, etc.
- Is the project open-source? Not open source yet but no reason why it can't be.
- Why no github signin? Good point. I recently mulled over which O Auth providers to support and for an MVP I decided Google was enough.
- How do you search for X but only in Y language? - Will you be doing a full 2D spread of combinations? The idea is the page "How to write to a file" has all the language examples
- How are you going to deal with duplication? If it gets popular I will deal with that issue then.
- How will you handle cases where there are multiple ways of doing things? - How will you handle cases where environment matters? You can have multiple examples per language. The one with the most votes will be most prominently displayed.