Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else

Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by com2kid on Friday May 03, 2024 @12:58AM (#40244203)

> Why does Microsoft build the very VisualStudio installer with Electron then?

> To me it seems companies ship electron because it's easy to hire a JavaScript developer.

When I worked at Microsoft, one team I was on, very ironically, had a really hard time finding Windows developers.

We actually resorted to drawing straws to see who on the team would have to learn native Windows development!

IMHO a large part of the problem is that native Windows development is a career dead end, unless you work at Microsoft, there are relatively few well paying jobs for what is now a niche skillset.

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Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by pjmlp on Friday May 03, 2024 @01:58AM (#40244572)

Unless one works for the games industry, does IT at big corp, embedded devices programming.

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Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by saagarjha on Friday May 03, 2024 @03:03AM (#40244975)

None of which are particularly sexy, unfortunately.

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Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by pjmlp on Friday May 03, 2024 @05:17AM (#40245700)

Given the hoards of candidates for game development and IoT jobs, putting up with the pay and hours, at least two of those are quite sexy.

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Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by saagarjha on Sunday May 05, 2024 @07:07AM (#40263932)

Game development, maybe. The IoT people just want something to pay their bills.

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Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by com2kid on Friday May 03, 2024 @12:02PM (#40249202)

Games pays badly, big corp IT pays badly, and unfortunately despite the difficulty, embedded tends to pays poorly unless you are at one of the big tech companies.

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Re:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, someth... by pjmlp on Friday May 03, 2024 @12:48PM (#40249690)

And yet the reason why they pay badly is the endless queue of people trying to get one of those jobs.

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