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/prog/ died. Pure and simple. It was born feeble and sickly, it was never very healthy to begin with, plagued with troll artists and homework threads. I've never seen a slice of the fabled golden age of /prog/, in which I believed once too.
You may have the occasional, very occasional, glimpse of ingenuity or erudition, but the board seems to have always been plagued with sophomoric discussion in the best of cases, rife with mindless name dropping to impress your peers, and the few people with any knowledge would rather troll preemptively than suffer the snotty CS freshmen that they themselves once were.
It's all a chronic lack of effort on everyone's part, and why should you move a finger to correct it? /prog/ is the programming /b/, /g/ on its best days, and adding a drop of pure and pristine water won't do shit to an ocean of piss.