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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by WalterBright on Thursday August 15, 2019 @09:29PM (#20711381)
Many employers coming looking for D programmers to hire have looked at accepted D contributions to the Dlang repository. It's a great way to build one's resume and find great people.
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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by scardine on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:52AM (#20712280)
Exactly, many people complain about about not being hired because they lack experience and they can't build experience if they are not hired.

My advice is always "build experience contributing to FOSS projects in your spare time".

We are pushing the envelope and often find bugs or lacking features. I want to hire people that can fix/implement those and send the PRs upstream instead of nagging the project maintainers.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by WalterBright on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:36AM (#20713246)
There are no gates in the D community. Anyone can contribute. Of course, for contributions to be merged the bar is pretty high.
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