Systems Programming Ghent

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About us

We aim to bring systems programming enthusiasts together by organizing not-for-profit events in Ghent and the surrounding area.

A systems programmer is someone who does systems programming. According to Wikipedia: ... systems programming aims to produce software and software platforms which provide services to other software, are performance constrained, or both.

In this group you can expect informal gatherings like:

Socials: relax after a long day at work and chat with like-minded people. If you are too exhausted to think, no worries, no-one will judge. The primary location will be cafe/restaurant Marengo next to Coupure in Ghent.
Presentations: exciting tools and frameworks in programming languages that give a combination of performance and expressiveness. For example, Rust or C++, but other topics are welcome.
Workshops: hands-on, goal-directed practical learning.

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Talks: Constructing system environments and deploying with Nix
Wed, Jul 29 · 7:00 PM CEST
Balkonzaal Jeugddienst, Kammerstraat 10 (1th floor), Gent, BE
Nix is a reproducible way to glue software builds together. It is a bit like Buck or Bazel, but takes a purely functional approach. Compared to most build systems, it can do a bit more and also provide Linux kernels, system dependencies and development environments. It also does not require you to drop your favorite CMake or other build system, Nix builds on top of that.

Useful for people working as DevOps, system maintainers, server managers, software engineers.

In this evening you can attend a few short talks by experienced Nix users on how they use Nix.

Talks:
1. Running a website on a VPS with Nix (Willem)
2. Den framework (Pol)
3. Comparison with other immutable distros (Yvan)
6 attendees