[spitfire]

So what (if anything) is taking strangeloops’ place?

[abletonlive]

Hopefully nothing. I’ve been to three and it’s a huge self congratulatory waste of time for everybody. Like most software conferences

[sitkack]

Sturgeon's Law is fractal, I have also been to three and don't regret it. Your frame of mind shapes an experience as much as the actual experience.

[Grosvenor]

I mean, I expect as time goes on the number of people who get the reference goes down. Things get diluted.

It slowly goes from a "Here's some very cool esoteric thing, that you can use" for people that write business systems in prolog, to "here's how to connect workaday language with workaday db in a slightly unique configuration".

edit: I looked at the videos. 10 years ago the talks were Rich Hickey and "Production prolog".

Did Douglas Hofstader ever speak at strangeloop? I know he doesn't actually like computers.

[code_biologist]

"have you tried rubbing a database on it" feels like a spiritual sibling.