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Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by culi »

whalesalad wrote: post #13
rgreasons wrote: post #4

Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list. My gut reaction was “really, no PyCon?” But when I went to the PyCon channel, even the keynotes from last year barely cracked a thousand views.

There is nothing interesting going on at pycon, usually. Most language-specific conferences tend to be pretty boring imho.

Depends on the language. Julia has a lot of cool stuff going on. And really small languages like Elm (when it was still being used) would probably involve a lot of discussion about programming language history and future considerations

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by itscrush »

sangeeth96 wrote: post #55

I really wish there existed a central platform that tracks/links to all tech conference videos from past to present because YouTube just plain sucks for this and in general, to focus. They've had DECADES to polish this experience (in general for any educational content), at least under the premium tier and I've given up all hopes of them ever getting this right. Off the top of my head, such a platform could: 1. Encou…

The security community used to maintain one that was fairly active pre-covid.

https://github.com/PaulSec/awesome-sec-talks

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by spacechild1 »

gpderetta wrote: post #71
spacechild1 wrote: post #60

I didn't expect so many C++ talks in this list. Not bad for a supposedly dying language :) "Introduction to Wait-free Algorithms in C++ Programming" by Daniel Anderson ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=kPh8pod0-gk ) is a very good talk, btw!

Reports of C++ death are greatly exaggerated.

It's obviously in its last breath, there are only billions of lines left.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by Olreich »

stavros wrote: post #69
EncomLab wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering the fact that Jon despises open-source you might be waiting a long time.

Why does he despise open-source?

He’s stated that he doesn’t think open source helps produce high quality software and attracts a bunch of people that are less interested in building software and more interested in building policy.

However, he’s stated many times that he will release his language compiler and modules openly when they are ready and that he believes he’ll have to open-source it at some point if he wants broad adoption.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by Olreich »

tasuki wrote: post #37
elric wrote: post #24

I got to see some of these in person, though at different conferences. If you're at all interested in Java, the talks by Venkat Subramaniam and Nicolai Parlog are worth a watch.

> If you're at all interested in Java Is that even a thing in 2025? I thought the consensus was that Kotlin has a strictly better syntax than Java. (I'm not even a Kotlin fan. I was pretty sad when Kotlin started taking Scala's market share...)

Kotlin fixes a lot of the verbosity, but its tooling support is shockingly bad compared to Java in VSCode and IntelliJ for me.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by Grosvenor »

abletonlive wrote: post #28
spitfire wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what (if anything) is taking strangeloops’ place?

Hopefully nothing. I’ve been to three and it’s a huge self congratulatory waste of time for everybody. Like most software conferences

I mean, I expect as time goes on the number of people who get the reference goes down. Things get diluted.

It slowly goes from a "Here's some very cool esoteric thing, that you can use" for people that write business systems in prolog, to "here's how to connect workaday language with workaday db in a slightly unique configuration".

edit: I looked at the videos. 10 years ago the talks were Rich Hickey and "Production prolog".

Did Douglas Hofstader ever speak at strangeloop? I know he doesn't actually like computers.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by eximius »

atombender wrote: post #51
eximius wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do think that the `SOA` struct modifier keyword is maybe the most interesting thing out of Jai. Other languages would do well to think about adopting a mechanism to support something like it.

My understanding is that it's been moved to a convenience macro and is no longer a syntax-level thing. The original videos where Blow talked about SOA at the language level is very old now, and the language has gone through a lot of changes.

Oh, then the language primer is also out of date.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by elric »

tasuki wrote: post #37
elric wrote: post #24

I got to see some of these in person, though at different conferences. If you're at all interested in Java, the talks by Venkat Subramaniam and Nicolai Parlog are worth a watch.

> If you're at all interested in Java Is that even a thing in 2025? I thought the consensus was that Kotlin has a strictly better syntax than Java. (I'm not even a Kotlin fan. I was pretty sad when Kotlin started taking Scala's market share...)

Why is it that every time the word Java comes up, some rando without any apparent insight into Java shows up to make weird Kotlin remarks.

1. There is no such thing as "strictly better syntax", that's impossible to objectivize.

2. Kotlin, while growing in popularity, doesn't even hit the 1% mark on the TIOBE index. It is currently less popular than Prolog. Java sits at 10%.

3. Don't yuck someone else's yum. It isn't constructive. It doesn't promote good discussion. And this just reeks of uninformed, subjective "java bad"-bandwagoning.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by rippeltippel »

spacechild1 wrote: post #60

I didn't expect so many C++ talks in this list. Not bad for a supposedly dying language :) "Introduction to Wait-free Algorithms in C++ Programming" by Daniel Anderson ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=kPh8pod0-gk ) is a very good talk, btw!

This sounds like survivor bias, fostered by all the "written in Rust" in project titles (HN is a major contributor!). C++ is very well alive, e.g. in graphics, game development, embedded systems, just to name a few. It's a nuanced language for sure, likely not the most user-friendly, but it's not going to die anytime soon.
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