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The accepted contributions to Onward! Essays (<https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Onward-Essays#event-overview>) and Onward! papers (<https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Onward-papers#event-overview>) have been announced. Many of the titles/abstracts sound very relevant for our community. And three essays have authors from FoC.

Special alert for <@UGWUJUZHT>: the Onward! paper by Weiher, Hirschfeld, and Taeumel looks aligned with your quest for moving  beyond function-based programming. And that reminds me that I have seen earlier work by Weiher on this topic, though I don't have concrete references at hand.

Seems like I should mention this here, too: <https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5U3SEW6A/p1725016308870669?thread_ts=1725009490.725239&amp;channel=C5U3SEW6A&amp;message_ts=1725016308.870669|https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5U3SEW6A/p1725016308870669?thread_ts=1725009490.725239&amp;channel=C5U3SEW6A&amp;message_ts=1725016308.870669>

<@UJBAJNFLK> Thanks for the shout out!  I am super happy with that paper, despite its flaws, because I _finally_ managed to clearly and succinctly describe how the magic of Objective-S works, and how that leads to a flexible meta-programmable language that can directly express architecture(s).

This has been eluding me for years if not decades, because there’s just a lot of stuff that is also relevant, but not really core.

Looking forward to that paper! I didn't know you were here as well. Nice :slightly_smiling_face: