I recently proposed an idea for a new Stackexchange site over on Area51 here, and it was almost immediately closed as a duplicate of this site. Is that correct? Is programming language design on-topic here?
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Sure, programming language design is one of the things computer scientists do. You'll find programming language design questions under tags such as programming-languages, typing, type-checking, type-inference, compilers, interpreters, etc. as well as under tags for specific programming paradigms such as constraint-programming, functional-programming, meta-programming, etc.
answered Jul 4, 2015 at 8:58
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'ModGilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Programming language design is on topic, though some people are rather keen on suggesting that anything related to programming should be closed.
I, for one, welcome more programming languages questions.
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2$\begingroup$ I think "programming" and "design of programming languages" are sufficiently distinct disciplines so that saying "programming questions are offtopic" does not imply that questions about PL design are offtopic as well. $\endgroup$– Raphael ModCommented Jul 6, 2015 at 13:50
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1$\begingroup$ @Raphael We have a problem sometimes with semantics questions that contain code getting votes to close, though it's usually questions about the semantics of an existing language rather than the design of a new one that are problematic. $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 6, 2015 at 19:48