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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 spacechild1 »

rippeltippel wrote: post #90
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.

My comment was very much tongue-in-cheek. Poe's law stroke again.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by Ygg2 »

jaxr wrote: post #75
Ygg2 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean? That wasn't a Q&A session, they interrupted the speaker and ate all the time arguing. The speaker didn't get to finish his presentation. This makes me think, whoever wrote these top 100 talks has either questionable tastes or just did a simple query and filter (SELECT * FROM youtube.video WHERE tag = tech SORT BY youtube.video.views LIMIT 100).

It clearly says the most watched talks, so yes. The author mentions in the article "from the conferences I follow"

That's not a good metric. For every Linux kernel drama, you drop something more interesting, like a less watched PapersWeLove conference.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by msdehghan »

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…

Checkout https://dev.tube/ site. It is not as feature-rich as you said but better than nothing!

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by tasuki »

elric wrote: post #89
tasuki wrote: post #37

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> 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…

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Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by elric »

tasuki wrote: post #94
elric wrote: post #89

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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…

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