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Video games are more mentally challenging & stimulating overall than any other task I regularly engage in. Especially Starcraft, which is absolutely exhausting
by TulliusCicero 7y ago
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).
- WalterBright 7y agoCome 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.
- harimau777 7y agoThis sounds interesting. Can you give any more information?
- WalterBright 7y agoThe web site is dlang.org, the source tree is https://github.com/dlang 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.
- bulldoa 7y agoDo you guys accept contribution from junior devs (2-4 years out of college that have no compiler experience)?
- WalterBright 7y agoWe 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.
- mhh__ 7y agoCompilers 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.
- WalterBright 7y ago> Compilers in the real world aren't that complicated Shhh - need to keep us compiler devs' salaries up!