Question-and-answer website for computer programmers
For the general term, see Stack overflow and Stack overflow (disambiguation). For the parent company, see Stack Exchange.
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Screenshot in June 2022
Type of site
Knowledge market Question and answer
Available in
English
Spanish
Russian
Portuguese
Japanese
Owner
Prosus
Created by
Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky
CEO
Prashanth Chandrasekar
URL
stackoverflow.com
Commercial
Yes
Registration
Optional
Launched
15 September 2008; 15 years ago (2008-09-15)[1]
Content license
CC BY-SA 2.5 (until April 2011)
CC BY-SA 3.0 (until May 2018)
CC BY-SA 4.0
Written in
C#
Stack Overflow is a question-and-answer website for computer programmers. It is the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network.[2][3][4] It was created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky.[5][6] It features questions and answers on certain computer programming topics.[7][8][9] It was created to be a more open alternative to earlier question and answer websites such as Experts-Exchange. Stack Overflow was sold to Prosus, a Netherlands-based consumer internet conglomerate, on 2 June 2021 for $1.8 billion.[10]
The website serves as a platform for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down similar to Reddit and edit questions and answers in a fashion similar to a wiki.[11] Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points and "badges"; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an "up" vote on a question or an answer to a question,[12] and can receive badges for their valued contributions,[13] which represents a gamification of the traditional Q&A website. Users unlock new privileges with an increase in reputation like the ability to vote, comment, and even edit other people's posts.[14]
As of March 2024[update] Stack Overflow has over 23 million registered users,[15] and has received over 24 million questions and 35 million answers.[16] The site and similar programming question and answer sites have globally mostly replaced programming books for day-to-day programming reference in the 2000s, and today are an important part of computer programming.[17] Based on the type of tags assigned to questions, the top eight most discussed topics on the site are: JavaScript, Java, C#, PHP, Android, Python, jQuery, and HTML.[18]
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