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Because ioccc is either too cheap to rent a ballroom, or they're not too cheap but in following their theme and long practice, they aren't telling you when and where they rented one. EDIT: It's true. HN has no sense of humor.
HN is not a place to make cheap jokes.
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That's absolutely false. Firstly, while the advent of Jupyter notebooks have certainly made using Python better for data science, why would you think that would cause people using Python for unrelated purposes to stop using it for those purposes? Practically, while data science / ML / etc work is a big part of Python, I'd wager a much larger part is still web development work (Django et all). And of course, just usin…
To be fair, it is my impression that even in data science, python is more a less a scripting language, and all the libraries which do the heavy lifting computing-wise are written in something else, because speed. Has this changed?
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Other implementations have parts of the runtime written in Assembler, Lisp, Java, ... A bunch of languages can be used to write a Lisp runtime.
The ones based on Java run on the JVM, which is always written in C :) The ones written in Lisp, well, at the bottom it's C again. I haven't seen a popular lisp yet with a meaningful amount of assembly in lieu of C.
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They are a waste of your employer’s time. For you they’re great, you’re still getting paid, but don’t have to work.
Quite a myopic view. My employer is pushing hard right now to sponsor lots of meetups and conferences to reach new (read: diverse) recruits.
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I mean, there's CppCon as mentioned in the article, and C++ has pretty much the same wide reach as C.
Please tell me that CppCon isn't a conference just for the C Preprocessor? I hate it when you go to one of those Makerfests, and it actually turns out to be about Makefiles.
Actually is a really good conference to learn Software Development beyond C++
Why isn’t there a bash conference? Someone is missing a golden opportunity to organize Bash Bash.
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i don't know, there are Golang, Python, Javascript, Ruby, PHP conferences and probably a lot more, so not sure if that argument is valid.
Of the ones you list, only one has a wide focus, IMO. Three of those will essentially be web development conferences, and I don't know what the hell people do with Go these days, but I'll bet it's mostly a handful of things. Python probably has broad enough usage and scope to counter what I said. The exception proves the rule. :-)
It mostly falls under the rubric of "writing servers."
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The ones based on Java run on the JVM, which is always written in C :) The ones written in Lisp, well, at the bottom it's C again. I haven't seen a popular lisp yet with a meaningful amount of assembly in lieu of C.
Isn't oracle vm written in C++?
I also think, as you go lower in the levels of abstraction, each implementation of a solution with that language becomes less applicable to other use cases, so there is a more robust barrier between each instance in the community.