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I can't speak for the other servers since I'm only active in one of them, but the one that I am on is dominated by people interested in art, music, and writing. A lot of discussion is just people talking about their day. I only really see people talking about programming as part of complaining about work, and art projects where it's part of the composition. SDF is a similar way, one of their big attractions is the amount of writing they do, and the net radio shows a couple of their members run. ~town is great, but I know a lot of people have a hard distate for the kind of CoC they have.

I can't deny that there isn't a large programming culture, though, and the majority of active IRC servers will be full of this type of discussion just by nature of who the platform attracts. Some of the more insufferable boxes I've poked my head into was entirely programming stuff. It's gotten pretty exhausting for me too, which is why I don't explore other places much anymore.