On-Topicness of programming questions in general

Question

Strongly related discussion. We should widen this site-scope discussion to handle all possibly emerging programming questions not just the embedded aspect.

We certainly will have questions about the followng APIs for example:

• libmosquito API
• HiveMQ developer guide
• RabbitMQ management HTTP API

I consider these on-topic at the moment, but then we should allow questions about any other web-service API too.

Maybe some questions about scripting will show up as well so all in all we should cover/handle all programming question from the beginning.

Answer 1

I have no problem with that as long as there is a certain connectivity/IoT aspect to the use case. There might even be some APIs like the ones you list that should be generally on-topic.

The really generic programming stuff without IoT connection, embeddedness or the like belongs on Stack Overflow.