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A comment on Ask HN: Requesting a reality check with C++ as a career choice. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Requesting a reality check with C++ as a career c... by taway_1212 on Friday December 30, 2016 @06:35PM (#13288453)
This is not entirely true. There are some low-level programmers who say they would gouge their eyes out if they were to work in a typical web dev environment (I'm sure there are also opposite examples). So: personal preferences matter to at least some people.
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Re:Ask HN: Requesting a reality check with C++ as a career c... by jmnicolas on Saturday December 31, 2016 @08:10AM (#13290872)
Honestly I'd fight like a cornered animal before taking any JavaScript or PHP job ... but I'd take it if it's either very well compensated or my only choice.

And I'm 100% sure that after 6 months working with it Stockholm syndrome would kick-in and I'd be happy with it ;-)

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