Re:Education and Men without Work
by WalterBright on Monday January 13, 2020 @04:02PM
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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)?
Re:Education and Men without Work
by WalterBright on Monday January 13, 2020 @06:08PM
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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.
Re:Education and Men without Work
by WalterBright on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:33PM
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> Compilers in the real world aren't that complicated
Shhh - need to keep us compiler devs' salaries up!
Re:Education and Men without Work
by harimau777 on Monday January 13, 2020 @05:56PM
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This sounds interesting. Can you give any more information?
Re:Education and Men without Work
by WalterBright on Monday January 13, 2020 @06:39PM
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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.
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).