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channingwalton
You mean like http://www.icfpconference.org/
puredanger
ICFP is an academic conference that is (often) held outside the US. The colocated CUFP conf with ICFP is closer to what I'm talking about but still somewhat small. I would like to engage the relatively new and active contingent of functional programmers in the Clojure, Scala, Erlang, and F# communities in particular.
fogus
I like to be hopeful and think that FP has gained enough exposure and use for its advocates to support two whole conferences.
puredanger
Yes, exactly. :) FP Days is doing good stuff too. And there are of course very robust single-community conferences for Clojure, Scala, Erlang, etc. But surely we have something to learn across langs.
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mtm
I'd love to see a conference that catered to commercial functional language developers. One area I'd like to see more discussion would be the problems/solutions for doing stand-alone/embedded development (iOS/android and industrial embedded work).

Can't wait Alex! Already looking forward to StrangeLoop this year

taylor75
I'd enjoy an FP exclusive for sure. It would be a great excuse for a place to hash out both philosophical as well as practical conjectures