Programming Languages at tech events
9 write-ups · 6 events · 2024–2026
Here I collect talks on languages and runtimes beyond Java and Rust, including Go, JavaScript and TypeScript, Inko and WebAssembly. The Go Amsterdam, AdvancedJS and Cloudflare meetups keep returning to how language choices affect tooling, deployment targets and the day-to-day work of building services. These notes help readers compare the ecosystems side by side.
2026
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam: The Curious Case of the Missing MemoryNotes from Mohammed Nafees's Go Amsterdam talk on finding missing memory with pprof, RSS, garbage collection, retention, and off-heap allocations.
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam: How to Stay Passionate in Tech in the Age of AINotes from Ainsley Clark's Go Amsterdam talk on staying passionate in tech during the AI age, covering career, craft, community, and motivation.
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam at JetBrains: Event RecapA recap of the Go Amsterdam meetup at JetBrains, with talks on the select statement, memory debugging, and staying passionate in tech during the AI age.
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam: A Deep Dive into the select StatementNotes from Jesús Espino's Go Amsterdam talk on the select statement, channel multiplexing, timer pitfalls, cancellation, and preventing goroutine leaks.
4 May 2026 · Inko meetup · Amsterdam
Inko: The Rust-Compiled Language with Erlang-StyleInko is a new programming language that compiles to native code via Rust's LLVM backend. It combines single-ownership memory management with Erlang-style.
2025
27 Feb 2025 · DevWorld Conference 2025 · Amsterdam
DevWorld Conference 2025 Amsterdam: A ThrowbackA throwback to DevWorld 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: modelling side effects as effects, Event Sourcing vs Transaction Script, the AI track and the evening.
25 Feb 2025 · Cloudflare Founders & Developers Meetup · Amsterdam
Cloudflare Founders & Developers Meetup Amsterdam 2025Cloudflare's February 2025 meetup in Amsterdam: Workers resources, why software is 1000x slower than hardware, and the case for lean engineering.
2024
12 Dec 2024 · Rust Meetup Amsterdam (December 2024) · Amsterdam
Rust Meetup Amsterdam December 2024: RustRover and BiomeRustNL's December 2024 meetup at JetBrains: RustRover's borrow-checker diagnostics, Biome's Rust architecture with Rowan and GritQL, and RustWeek 2025.
12 Jun 2024 · AdvancedJS Amsterdam (16th edition) · Amsterdam
AdvancedJS Amsterdam 2024: SolidStart and AngularAdvancedJS Amsterdam, 16th edition: a SolidStart demo, Minko Gechev on web frameworks at Google, and lightning talks on the TypeScript compiler API and Zod.