[rgreasons]

Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list. My gut reaction was “really, no PyCon?” But when I went to the PyCon channel, even the keynotes from last year barely cracked a thousand views.

[simonw]

I just checked and my PyCon keynote got 6,200 - pretty happy with that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1-KQZZarpc

[rgreasons]

I consider you a pretty big name in our little corner of the world, so that number seemed pretty low to me! Expected 5 figures at least!!

[chickenzzzzu]

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[syndicatedjelly]

Is number of YouTube views the new metric for gauging how much “people care about learning to program”?

[apwell23]

yes

[ojhughes]

The days of people entering the industry to make big money are probably behind us.

[apwell23]

good

[swyx]

hmm sounds like your AIE keynote was bigger than PyCon :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTTMUWP5B0s

[whalesalad]

There is nothing interesting going on at pycon, usually. Most language-specific conferences tend to be pretty boring imho.

[culi]

Depends on the language. Julia has a lot of cool stuff going on. And really small languages like Elm (when it was still being used) would probably involve a lot of discussion about programming language history and future considerations

[ai-christianson]

> Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list.

I think it's pretty cool we're hearing from more voices though.