For the same reason that carpenters do not have conferences about saws and hammers. It's an old tool with well-known deficiencies and it doesn't attract an idealistic, evangelical crowd that can write manifestos and narratives about it.
Lots of idealists and evangelicals in the woodworking world as well, probably more so than any other world I've been in. Makes technology look fairly tame.
I can't wait for people to start asking stable diffusion or dall-e for ideas. "unusual danish modern canopy bed 85mm"
I'm sure they won't run out of advances to talk about. And people keep reviving old techniques that got ignored too, or ones from other cultures.
OK, maybe Rust isn't such a good idea here.
A subscription to deal with the wear-and-tear is probably only needed for the larger shops.
For hand tools I mostly saw japanese woodworker competitions.
There are many which are less modernly advertised (usually paper/newsgroup/email) that will draw 100+ people easily.
Including planned events with participants in the dozens, Id say you could count at least 100 a year. I'd consider that since that's the population of smaller tech conferences.
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but that event is about hammers just as much as embedded programming is about C.
Something like 'The 393rd International Conference on Hammers'? With people presenting about the latest developments in hammers and how they're using hammers in new ways? You've been to dozens of those?
Not sure I believe you.
If we want to be literal then I don't know of anything on _just_ saws and hammers, but in the quite adjacent space (one or two hand carpentry tools also a focus) - yes.
Lots of people learn and use C as an every day tool. I'm a Java and Ruby programmer - but I have to work with C as an ABI and an extension language. Python programmers have to work with C as an extension language. There are DB developers who use C.
I don't know anyone who describes themselves as a 'C programmer' like you would 'Ruby programmer'.
Carpenters do have conferences. Even groups of carpenters as small as those in NY apparently!
There are plenty of systems programming conferences where the majority of work being presented is written in C. That is very different from a conference about C itself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18505081
It seems like even HN comments could be estimated by an AI.
- It subscribed to subreddits like /r/pics and /r/funny that largely consisted of posting links (not text posts)
- When it calculated that a post was rocketing toward the front page, it would look at all the past times the URL had been submitted.
- If none of those had made it to the front page, it would find the most upvoted top-level comment, copy the text verbatim, and make the same comment on the post that would end up on the front page.
For the longest time, everyone just thought that this account was some super-interesting, super-funny person who always had the perfect joke or perfect comment for any given situation. Sure it was a bit odd that they never replied to anyone, but that also just felt like part of their mystique.
Then someone got the receipts and outed the account as a bot and the show was all over. I wouldn’t be shocked to see someone on HN do the same thing, but I also think HN isn’t big enough for a grift like that to pass by unnoticed.
(BTW, I'm not suggesting anyone here is a bot, obviously)
We are all sets of the same memes, recurring over and over.
(A cool and weird experiment: try playing several shows all at the same time. There'll be eerie moments when the audio syncs up, or one show surreally reacts to another.)
(Also, ad breaks represent somewhat standard points at which shows would break up programming.)