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I don’t have any great ideas. A big one for me would be ‘better/much faster language server for the language I use’ but that’s a lot of work. But if you like w
by dan-robertson 4y ago
I don’t have any great ideas. A big one for me would be ‘better/much faster language server for the language I use’ but that’s a lot of work.
But if you like working on developer tools, the best way to do it is to find a sufficiently large company that care’s sufficiently much about developer tools that they will be willing to pay you to work on in-house developer tools. This can be much more stable than trying to sell developer tools yourself (hard to find a tool with market appeal and hard to sell it) and you get to easily talk with your users and understand what they actually want. People are also much more tolerant of teething problems with internal software than with external software.
- Kaze404 4y agoDo you have any tips on how to find such companies? I've always wanted to work on developer tooling but only ever found one company willing to invest in that.
- dan-robertson 4y agoAny big tech company will invest in developer tooling. E.g. Google has tens of thousands of software engineers. They have internal build systems, internal source control, internal code review, internal code search, and so on. Facebook is similar. Microsoft make and sometimes sell developer tools to be used outside their company.