Re:Elon Musk: Tons of C++/C engineers needed
by ryandrake on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:13AM
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My first job out of university was writing display drivers (C and x86 assembly). It was definitely a junior position but I was hired for my interest in and [at least] emerging ability to optimize C and write code running “on the metal”. It’s a skill like any other—There’s not some magical age where you get it.
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Re:Elon Musk: Tons of C++/C engineers needed
by scruple on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:18PM
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I had a very similar experience, sans the degree, but in the embedded world for an RF company. I still like to write C in my free time today, nearly 8 years after leaving that job. I've shipped a few pieces of performance critical code in C for the Rails shop that I work for today, too, in the form of FFI and language extensions. I honestly don't think I'll ever ~be free from~ give up C explicitly for these reasons (it's also ludicrously satisfying to realize and share these sorts of performance gains in a production application).