Comment by 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..
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.)
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.
Meetup with people who share an interest itself fun?