DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 13:46 +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> 
[…]
> Given that this conference format is dying off, is there any 
> explanation for why the D team wants to continue this antiquated 
> ritual?
> 
> https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era
> http://subfurther.com/blog/2018/01/15/the-final-conf-down/
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ogrdeyojqzosvjnthpsi@forum.dlang.org

[…]

So iOS conferences are a dying form. Maybe because iOS is a dying form? Your
evidence of the failure of the iOS community to confer is not evidence of the
failure of the conference in other communities. Others have cited Rust and Go.
I shall cite Python, Ruby, Groovy, Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Haskell, all of
which have thriving programming language oriented conferences all over the
world. Then there are the Linux conferences, GStreamer conferences, conference
all about specific technologies rather than programming languages. And of
course there is ACCU. There is much more evidence that the more or less
traditional conference format serves a purpose for people, and are remaining
very successful. Many of these conferences make good profits, so are
commercially viable.

Thus I reject the fundamental premise of your position that the conference
format is dying off. It isn't. The proof is there.

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Russel.
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