The quesion has been haunting me for a long time. StackOverflow is a general service for many different programming languages. Mathematica is just one among those programming languages. Why was the Mathematica subsite separated from StackOverflow?
What is happening?
This question was discussed a lot when the site was originally proposed. In fact, the SE team even rejected the proposal at one point on the grounds that it overlapped SO too much. However, a great post sums up the reason for the site's existence (and, along with community support, likely had much to do with the reversal of the rejection).
