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I don't understand this perspective. Everyone only has so many hours in a day, and there's only so fast you can work. If he's writing esbuild that is taking ti

I don't understand this perspective. Everyone only has so many hours in a day, and there's only so fast you can work. If he's writing esbuild that is taking time away from being the CTO of Figma. Either he's working a shit ton, one of the things (Esbuild or Figma) is being somewhat neglected, or his output is actually not as high as it looks.

zerocount 5y ago
Maybe there's not much to do as the CTO of Figma. Throwing time into Esbuild doesn't mean he's neglecting his CTO duties.
- ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  In which case my last option would be relevant: > or his output is actually not as high as it looks
  - fvdessen 5y ago
    Frankly most of us would not be able to create esbuild even with all the time in the world.
pixelrevision 5y ago
The tool is likely helping Figma pretty directly by cutting developer build times.
betageek 5y ago
CTO and lead developer on a focused project are very different jobs - my guess would be he relaxes from the very strategy and soft-skill heavy day job by diving into a challenging problem that keeps his dev chops up and lets him focus on a finite problem.
- ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  So working a shit ton then.
  - kyawzazaw 5y ago
    No idea on Evan Wallace's perspective but there is a possibility that it isn't seen as work. It would like be me solving sudoku or some of my friends building LEGOs or solving extremely hard jigzaw puzzles
    - ZephyrBlu 5y ago
      I understand that because it's often how I feel when I'm doing programming work. However, I would still consider that time spent working.
zeroxfe 5y ago
As someone that ran a company while working on side open source projects, don't underestimate the therapeutic value of writing code. (As a CEO, my job had almost no coding, and working on my opensource projects made me happy, and restored a lot of my energy.)
atonse 5y ago
To echo what others have said here, my role as CTO and now CEO has gone from 95% coding to about 5% these days. So some nights I code on ideas and things that have been swirling in my head, just because it’s nice to just quietly write code and solve a finite (but possibly difficult) problem without interruptions. It actually IS therapeutic.
- xal 5y ago
  Same

zerocount 5y ago

Maybe there's not much to do as the CTO of Figma. Throwing time into Esbuild doesn't mean he's neglecting his CTO duties.

ZephyrBlu 5y ago
In which case my last option would be relevant: > or his output is actually not as high as it looks
- fvdessen 5y ago
  Frankly most of us would not be able to create esbuild even with all the time in the world.

pixelrevision 5y ago

The tool is likely helping Figma pretty directly by cutting developer build times.

betageek 5y ago

CTO and lead developer on a focused project are very different jobs - my guess would be he relaxes from the very strategy and soft-skill heavy day job by diving into a challenging problem that keeps his dev chops up and lets him focus on a finite problem.

ZephyrBlu 5y ago
So working a shit ton then.
- kyawzazaw 5y ago
  No idea on Evan Wallace's perspective but there is a possibility that it isn't seen as work. It would like be me solving sudoku or some of my friends building LEGOs or solving extremely hard jigzaw puzzles
  - ZephyrBlu 5y ago
    I understand that because it's often how I feel when I'm doing programming work. However, I would still consider that time spent working.

zeroxfe 5y ago

As someone that ran a company while working on side open source projects, don't underestimate the therapeutic value of writing code. (As a CEO, my job had almost no coding, and working on my opensource projects made me happy, and restored a lot of my energy.)

atonse 5y ago

To echo what others have said here, my role as CTO and now CEO has gone from 95% coding to about 5% these days. So some nights I code on ideas and things that have been swirling in my head, just because it’s nice to just quietly write code and solve a finite (but possibly difficult) problem without interruptions. It actually IS therapeutic.

xal 5y ago
Same