Official website: https://sysghent.be.
We aim to bring systems programming enthusiasts together by organizing events in Ghent and the surrounding area. Overall, we try to keep the events free and accessible to beginners:
- Drinks/dinner: 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.
- 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: Moments to hack and learn together on trendy systems software or hardware-related topics. Actual topics will depend on the interests of participants and/or organisers.
According to Wikipedia:
Systems programming aims to produce software and software platforms which provide services to other software, are performance constrained, or both.
This is of course a very broad definition, but it includes programming languages such as C, C++, Rust, Zig, and Go, as well as topics like operating systems, compilers, and embedded systems.
This community was originally a hobby project started by Willem in December 2024. Meanwhile, several other passionate people/friends are helping out by organizing events or giving presentations, such as Hugo Herter and Jo Devriendt.
We are passionate developers. We want to bring together people in the field, who might be isolated from each other, to learn and grow together.
