Ask HN: Would Snippet Repo Help You?

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4 pointsjonobird12 comments

My concern here is that with a small user base people won't be able to review/vet the snippets. With something like StackExchange, there's enough people using it that there's some amount of peer review.

How would you ensure code validity in Snippet Repo?

edit: Also, how would you handle multiple submissions for the same snippet in the same language? I.e., two Java snippets that both safely retrieve an element from a map.

Great question and a big one I am faced with at the moment. My thoughts for that is on each snippet, a user can provide a better way of doing this and this will either be showed back to the original user to decide if this way is better, or to have multiple options somehow.

There is no official way to ensure code validity just as there isn't with StackOverflow. But we do have a voting system and invite only community so by having this, developers can upvote and downvote based on quality and this weeds out low quality snippets and invalid/bad code.

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