Video games are more mentally challenging & stimulating overall than any other task I regularly engage in. Especially Starcraft, which is absolutely exhausting to play competitively.

My day to day work as a programmer just doesn't push me mentally very hard. The kind of deep, exhaustive thinking I needed to get through difficult CS classes is unnecessary in most of my work (and the pacing is rather languid, most of the time).

Come join us in the D development effort. We have plenty of productive things to do that will push you past your limits. This kind of work is also good for giving your career a boost - this has happened to many on the D team.

Do you guys accept contribution from junior devs (2-4 years out of college that have no compiler experience)?

We don't care who you are or what your resume looks like. If your work is excellent and is what we need, we'll accept it.

Compilers in the real world aren't that complicated - if you delve into dmd you'll spend way more time on the actual codebase than theory.

> Compilers in the real world aren't that complicated

Shhh - need to keep us compiler devs' salaries up!

This sounds interesting. Can you give any more information?

The web site is dlang.org, the source tree is https://github.com/dlang

Just hang out in the forums forum.dlang.org for a while and you'll get sense of what's going.

If you're ambitious, internally motivated, don't need to be micro-managed, and are a crackerjack programmer, you'll be welcome.

Many (most?) Of the time the choice isn't between video games and a fullfilling career. It's between a shitty job and games. It's very easy for me to say I would never do that, but I also have a pretty good job and a decent social life. Games also provide some sense of community that is increasingly harder to find in real life, especially if you're not successful by some metric.

This is strangely framed. The choice is, at the very least, between a job, games, and a library. And a trillion other things. Long walks. Gardening.

I’m not sure where the games narrative comes from. From the image on top of the article?

I also can't understand it, life is fun and video games get boring pretty quickly. But that's probably why I am not staying at home playing video games all day.

Not for everyone. Some people drew the short straw in life, poor genetics (low IQ/ physical attributes), live in terrible environments, etc. There is more variance among men so more end up on the short end of the stick.

When every attempt at success is multiple times less likely because of those factors it's easy to get lost in games which are designed to feed that sense of achievement.

Life usually isn’t fun if you are hideous or stupid.

It probably doesn't help that women find 80% of men as ugly.