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Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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Re: Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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Post by ddingus »

news_to_me wrote: post #33
ddevault wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I strongly disagree. C should is adding langauge features at a pace other languages could stand to emulate. C is stable, trusted, and supported everywhere for this very reason. Codebases should not be using extensions, and Linux is wrong to do so.

> Codebases should not be using extensions, and Linux is wrong to do so. Poppycock. Codebases should use any and all tools available to them to accomplish their goals, given the tradeoffs. Using non-standard language extensions is a tradeoff, and if it suits the Linux community and their goals, there's nothing wrong with that.

That is one way non-standard extensions become standard.

Re: Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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Post by lostgame »

perl4ever wrote: post #39
zacharytelschow wrote: post #29

Same reason there aren't B Batteries - because you could never be sure if someone had a stutter.

I think there are B batteries, they are just obscure compared to C and A. According to a cursory check of Wikipedia, a lantern battery such as "Energizer 3LR12 4.5 V Max Battery" sold in the UK contains three of what may be known as B cells. Incidentally, someone once told me he had experience in "C+" programming and I've never been sure if he was joking.

I often incorrectly refer to C++ or worse, even C, as C+.

I hear others make this mistake, too. I think it's just a colloquialism?

Re: Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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Post by guachesuedehack »

Svoka wrote: post #13

Lets be honest: conferences exist to waste time. Nothing productive gets done on conferences and best thing you can take our from them is to socialize with like-minded people.

There is barely even a community for it, the c language itself like golang has.

Re: Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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Post by macintux »

dilyevsky wrote: post #46
Svoka wrote: post #13

Lets be honest: conferences exist to waste time. Nothing productive gets done on conferences and best thing you can take our from them is to socialize with like-minded people.

If you think that making connections with people working on same things you do is waste of time you’ve got another thing coming. But yeah nobody writes code at conferences, I thought that was pretty obvious.

> But yeah nobody writes code at conferences

Depends on the conference, I suppose, but most I've been to include a healthy dose of that.

Certainly writing production code for work is rare, but for fun? Lots of it gets written there.

Re: Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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Post by Jyaif »

johan_larson wrote: post #52

Are there many new projects being started these days in C, or even C++? I would expect most of that to have moved over to Java or Golang, with most C-family coding being on extensions of older projects.

If there are new languages being developed, their compiler/interpreter are likely being developed in C/C++, possibly Rust.

Also, any new database, OS, or AAA game is going to be written in one of those language.

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