What are Software Development communities?
The software development industry is an ever-changing beast. Every year new programming languages emerge, new technologies hit the market, open source software is developed, and existing languages and technologies are either left behind or completely re-imagined. It’s easy to get lost in the shuffle when you’re new to the industry — your skills are too outdated to help you land a job, but they’re not modern enough to help you keep one. Software developers are always looking to learn more about their craft, but they don’t always know where to look. This list of communities is dedicated to engineers, software developers, coders, and hackers. Some are online communities dedicated to a particular technology or programming language, and some are general purpose communities or those that help developers early in their career. The communities on this list are an excellent source of inspiration, knowledge-sharing, and networking.
About Online Communities on Slack
Slack is a business communication platform which offers many realtime chat features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. Slack is popular as a company communication tool, but offers realtime communication functionality to other types of communities as well.
iOS Developers
A Slack community for iOS developers with 30,000 members (and counting!) We care about three things: being open, helping each other, and sharing knowledge. If this sounds like you then request an invite. We look forward to getting to know you.36K members
ChatDevOps Chat
Your DevOps Community. Find DevOps Jobs, Events, Articles or make connections with 19,038 members in our Slack Community22K members
ChatEventsJobsChangelog
From San Francisco to Berlin and everywhere in between, developers around the world trust Changelog to deliver the best news and podcasts for developers. Our community and content is in every corner of the globe. Connect with like-minded developers from all over the world. Hang with us and Slack in realtime during our live shows. Be the first to hear about upcoming shows and projects. This is your all-access pass to everything we do.19K members
ChatApplyPerksHack Club
Hack Club is a nonprofit network of high school coding clubs and makers around the world. In the Hack Club Slack, you'll find a group of 16,000+ fabulous people to talk to, active at all hours.12K members
ChatPerksEventsAndroid United
Android United is a friendly Slack community of Android developers.3K members
ChatDataTalks.Club
DataTalks.Club is the place to talk about data. It's a community of aspiring and professional data enthusiasts.3K members
ChatEventsNewsletterJobsImpact Makers
A global community of 1,000+ tech people who want to help fix the climate. Want to contribute to the fight for our planet? You've come to the right place.1K members
ChatVirtual Coffee
Virtual Coffee is a laid-back conversation with developers twice a week. It's the conversation that keeps going in slack. It's the online events that support developers at all stages of the journey. It's the place you go to make friends. Anyone can join! Whether you're thinking about getting into tech or have been in it for decades.550 members
ChatApplyPairingEventsNewsletterJobsProgramming Bloggers
A Slack community for people who run programming blogs to chat, recommend stuff, hang out and maybe even organize guest-posts!421 members
ChatUnited Designers
We are United Designers, a not-for-profit global community of over four hundred designers and developers who share a passion for creating. We have a mix of channels geared towards serious design discussion and professional help as well as channels for day-to-day chatting and inspiration.400 members
ChatApplyDaily Dev Links
dailydevlinks is a curated resource for developers & designers to find interesting articles around the things they love to read on a daily basis. In addition, it has a community of like-minded people that have a passion for development, design & growth. A place people can learn, help, share ideas & connect. 🧑💻 Connect with like-minded people 💡 Share your ideas 🧠 Learn new things from the community 🚀 Find people to collaborate with ❓ Easily find help from other members136 members
ChatNewsletterToolsSoftware Crafters
An online community for Software Crafters30 members
ChatNewsletter#go
A slack group dedicated to the go programming languageChat#php
A slack group dedicated to the php programming languageChat#nodejs
A slack group dedicated to NodeChat#python
A slack group dedicated to the python programming languageChat#ruby
A slack group dedicated to the ruby programming languageChatWomen in Technology
Our group is a safe, confidential space for women who work in technology to chat and support each other. Please consider joining us whether you are new to the tech industry or you are a long-time practitioner. Not a programmer? That’s fine! Our group does not exclude people who work in technical writing, software testing and QA, graphic design, user experience, project management, customer support, or other areas that are sometimes invisible in the discourse on women in tech.ChatParrity
A P2P library with tutorials, courses, and how-to's made by the brightest business minds of our time.ForumChatNewsletter