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Why Aren't There C Conferences?

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2018–2022
peak thread · 372 comments
466 pts
latest 20+ return · 2022-08-26
153 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Because though there might be building trades conferences, there are no hammer conferences. Oh, there will be tool vendors at the building trades conferences, there might be sessions on "Efficient Hammering Techniques Using Machine Learning", but there are no conferences about hammers. Don't forget about the blacksmith conference next week, they'll have hammer vendors, too. I dunno, a Ruby conference kinda makes sense because one will mostly build web sites with it, so it's really going to be a "Building…

Can someone start one? I'd love to go. I used c++, golang, python, javascript over the years, even tried Rust briefly. Turns out I'm most productive in C, I can get stuff done the fastest way in C and one month later I can still understand the code. Posix C with all its libraries can do so many wonders, many of the traps and pitfalls are well known, fuzzing test can further secure the code, and, it's just that unbeatable-ly…

Yes! Thank you. Perhaps now that all conferences are virtual, costs will be low enough to see this happen...

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
623

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Total comments
562

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2018-11-21Why Aren't There C Conferences?First breakout · Best threadingve466372
2020-09-02Why Aren't There C Conferences?pcr91030341
2022-08-26Why aren't there C conferences? (2018)Latest 20+ point returnoptimalsolver153189