That gets me thinking of how things seems to have creeped up the stack, so to speak. First one have hardware conferences, as the hardware is the platform. Then

That gets me thinking of how things seems to have creeped up the stack, so to speak. First one have hardware conferences, as the hardware is the platform. Then one get OS conferences. And now one have language conferences, because languages, thanks to the net, have adopted things like package managers that used to be the responsibility of the OS. It is almost frustrating to install a python based program these days, as the documentation will rarely list any dependencies. Instead the install step will just pull in a pile of packages via pypi or similar, with little chance of review or control.