Why do I always miss cool FOSS events? In February, I realized I could have visited the #FOSDEM, and now I am missing out on this year's #FrOSCon. Even more annoying: Both are free and are just a couple of hours train ride from me 😒
#OFFDEM will take place next to #FOSDEM next year.
A small group of folks are gathering to organize a nice cosy family event again. Thanks to @how and @natacha and their teams for organizing the last ediitons.
Orga is slowly forming and it is an early stage announcement. So, if you want to join for orga, we will start soonish :)
I'm just now catching Andrew Whatson's talk on #PreScheme from #fosdem this year, and I just can't get over the fact that he was able to implement a working, reasonably fast systems programming language with Hindley-Milner type inference in his free time over the course of a few months. And I was in the #GuileSteel irc when the discourse first started, it was probably less than a month before he got it working. I even try it then and it seemed great for something that went up that quick. What other programming languages make rapid prototyping #compilers feasible without relying on massive frameworks like #LLVM or #Truffle/#Graal?
Many people seem to agree that part of what makes #git (& #dvcs in general) so difficult to get a really effective handle on is that applying patches is a lot like working with pre-processor macros (ie #define in #C), and that there oughta be a more well-bounded, lexically concise means of code collaboration to establish. But the only work I've seen in this direction is Arun Isaac's tree-diff[1]. #TreeSitter[2] seems like a tool that can greatly ease experimentation in this direction, but what other work has been done on this problem?
@anderseknert The conference was enjoyable. Not as full on as #FOSDEM. There were only two rooms. Some technical talks and some about policy. Lots of interesting people to talk to.
If you missed my "Become a rockstar using FOSS!" talk in #openmedia yesterday, the #fosdem#video team is amazing and made a video recording available already!
This is a direct link to the video since it's not in the talk page yet, but eventually it will be added there too. Now get your guitar out of that closet, dust it off, and make some noise 😁 #fosdem23
Wish I could be there in person for #fosdem 23, but happy to be presenting my first talk remotely! It is about FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) support in #guix containers, letting you run things like appimages, language ecosystem tools, and more: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/guixfhs/ It will be super early here but I'll be available online then for discussion (alarms willing).