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Comment by kevinak

5 years ago

This is such amazing news! Betting on Svelte was the best thing ever for both my career and sanity. I'm now heavily involved in the Svelte community and next Saturday we'll be hosting our fourth conference solely dedicated to Svelte.

If you're interested in checking it out the URL is here, it's free and will be streamed on YouTube: https://sveltesummit.com

There are also two watch parties that will be hosted in New York (Rich will attend!) and in Mainz, Germany.

Links: - https://lu.ma/sveltenyc - https://lu.ma/sveltesummit-2021-mainz

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ramraj07  5 years ago

Genuinely curious, what’s there to do about for an entire conference about a single library? For someone from academia, where conferences typically span an entire field of research, this seems extremely niche and quite boring after a bit..

  • candu  5 years ago

    Well - that might be overstating the matter; after all, academia also has workshops focused on very small niches...

    ...but also: it's not uncommon to find industry conferences about a specific framework, because it's not just about the framework - it's about the uses to which that framework can be put, and about interacting with the community around that framework. Both of those facets permit a lot of variety, especially for foundational tools (e.g. web application frameworks, UI libraries, database platforms, etc.)

  • DonHopkins  5 years ago

    Because the last Computer Science Conference I went to wasn't small and cozy enough that I got to hang out and personally chat with the leaders in the field.