The End Is Near: StackOverflow is dying — now what?

A pillar of many dev memes is going down

I feel old — induced by the fond frustrated memories of internally yelling “BUT WHY!?!?” as I fume at Google and vague StackOverflow answers that hardly match my issues to the tee.

I remember the long days of manual formatting before discovering Prettier, and the code reviews that leave us scratching our heads as we try to determine why our best practice approach is breaking the page.

As I look at how far we’ve come as an industry — the conversations, the knowledge sharing, and our immense ability to organize and assimilate information, the incoming death of StackOverflow feels almost like an end of an era.

You know, the kind where our childhood bedrooms become relic displays at museums, where them young’uns can gawk and wonder how we managed to survive without instant access to information.

The story of StackOverflow, an ode to the past

Sometime in 2008, on a possibly sunny day, two guys — Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky — decided to create a platform for developers to…