I am looking for some IRC channels for programmers. Websites, forums, and stackoverflow are good for large-ish questions, but for quick stupid things or just chatting about issues with easy back-and-forth then IRC would be ideal.
Can anyone recommend IRC channels, either about specific languages or more general programming chat?
The freenode.net server is full of channels for programmers. Have a lock at the channel list and get into the one of your preferred programming language.
Depends on you're interests really, but in general, just look at the list of channels on freenode, and pick whichever you like. Freenode is a great network, with many specialized channels and pretty sensible users.