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I'm asking this question since SO isn't particularly well suited for this kind of task since it was designed for asking questions like this one. Therefore I neither ask it relative to SO. I ask whether there is a tool better suited for programming-related discussion than old-mannered forums, mailing lists, wikis, IRC, or afk chatting.

A tool like this would allow people to distill interesting discussion, summarize it, help them to logically analyze it and present constructive discussion better than any of the services I just described could.

So go on, answer and I'll see which answer matches best.

(Not tagging this 'discussion', because even if it relates, the discussion-tag is used to ignore questions that require discussion. This question is clearly not such, because a person can answer to the question with a name of software.)

(Why am I needing this kind of app? More I get out of the wake of very skilled people, harder questions I hit with very hard answers or with no answer at all. Unless I spend for many months or years seeking for answers to such questions - or even worse, seeking for answer just to notice there's no answer - I think there's few other ways to answer such questions than setting up a discussion about them. Also I believe many people ask same questions over again so at the best I wouldn't need to even ask questions, they'd be asked already for me. I'd only need to locate them then. ... I guess I'm really lazy when asking this one.)

+3  A: 

No. There isn't.

Genericrich
Maybe it's reasonable to assume this after looking up for a while.
Cheery
+1  A: 

What you're looking for is a community of people to talk to, not a tool. If people wish to discuss what they love, they will - no matter what tool they're forced to use to do it.

Andrei Krotkov
Yeh. It seems so they pretty much discuss, most upvoted questions in stackoverflow have certain soapbox factor in them. Anyway that's not a problem. The problem is how do you get the information you need or want.
Cheery
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Have you asked John Skeet? If he can't answer it, nobody can :P

BenAlabaster