# How Stack Overflow Changed Programming Overnight

DevFeed: [How Stack Overflow Changed Programming Overnight](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/kinda-a-big-announcement-37532.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announcement/>)

Author: Joel Spolsky

Published: 2021-06-02T16:36:19Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Joel Spolsky](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/joel-spolsky.md>)

Topics: [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Stack Overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stackoverflow.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [stack-overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stack-overflow.md>), [web-app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-app.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary reflects on how programming has changed slowly through memory management improvements and modern tools, while arguing that Stack Overflow rapidly changed how developers find programming knowledge. It also criticizes the growing complexity of development tools and the continued difficulty of common web application tasks.

## Source excerpt

The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before... Read more "Kinda a big announcement"