SJVN: Of course, there's nothing new about answering programming questions. In a way, Stack Overflow is a direct descendant of Usenet group FAQs such as those on comp.lang.c, which began in the 1980s.

ASP.NET Core, Microsoft’s cross-platform framework for web and mobile apps, will offer a combined, full-stack web programming model as part of the planned .NET 8 software development platform ...