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Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by andreabergia on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:26AM (#44959202)
Same here! I am now actually working in compilers, which is one thing I'm really passionate about, but not something I was doing professionaly. I managed to turn a toy project and some blog posts into an actual job at almost 40, so, thank you HN!
Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by saagarjha on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:31AM (#44959233)
If I might ask what does you employer need compiler experience for?
Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by andreabergia on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:11AM (#44959812)
I work at ServiceNow, which sells an enterprise platform and a ton of products built on top of it. Internal teams and customers can extend the platform by writing JavaScript, hence we have a JS runtime in the platform (the venerable https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/), which our team works on.
Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by saagarjha on Friday August 22, 2025 @04:10AM (#44982045)
Huh, interesting. Thanks!