Ask HN: Are there any HN-like communities for programming discussions?

One place I enjoy is the DevChat slack. It's not in the format of HN, but the people are friendly like HN. https://join.slack.com/t/devolio-devchat/shared_invite/zt-bx...

Twitter could be one but will need some crafting.

Refine the accounts you follow based on friendliness, information quality and relevance. Might end up making a nice little community. Spread friendliness yourself and attract friendly people to follow you.

If you don't like SO then you may not like this idea, but IRC [1] is still alive and kicking. It's much smaller now because of discord and slack, but many of the highly technical people are still there. I am not on there very much these days mostly because some pockets are very much like SO in that, there is a bit of elitism and sub-culture specific etiquette. Just my opinion, some channels are great

[1] - https://freenode.net/

Future of coding is a cool programming community that discusses graphics C and C++ occasionally. A lot of the focus is on visual programming, end user programming, esoteric languages and no code/low code. Lobster.rs as suggested is pretty good for general technical discussion but graphics on a non-surface level rarely comes up.

For graphics and C++ Twitter is probably the best option, follow some important graphics folks (say Peter Shirley, Angelo Pesce or John Carmack) and you'll get some interesting threads. There are also some good graphics programming Reddits. A lot of the best discussion happens in invite only places for me now, having some contacts in the industry helps there.

Reddit is your best bet.

Some language subs are horrible, but the smaller ones are often great and informative.

Lobsters[0] is pretty good.

[0] https://lobste.rs/

gamedev.net forums have always been a civil place with a lot of industry experts hanging around. You don't have to be a game developer, though, you can discuss any general graphics and programming questions. Unfortunately it has been going down in popularity every year.