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> 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
by com2kid 2y ago
> 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.
- pjmlp 2y agoUnless one works for the games industry, does IT at big corp, embedded devices programming.
- saagarjha 2y agoNone of which are particularly sexy, unfortunately.
- com2kid 2y agoGames 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.
- pjmlp 2y agoAnd yet the reason why they pay badly is the endless queue of people trying to get one of those jobs.