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If not iPhone, how is a web-hating programmer to strike rich?

• harpastum 17y ago
  Striking it rich aside, a "a web-hating programmer" is going to have a lot of trouble these days. No matter what project you start on, completely avoiding the web is one way to make sure that your competitors will one day get the best of you. If you're talking about simply avoiding 'web apps,' there's still decent money to be made in desktop applications. But, as with almost all industries, there are two ways to strike it rich: get really lucky, or work really hard. edit: now that I think about it, you might be able to get a couple years out of µC work without dealing with the web, but that's more hardware than software.
  • nearestneighbor 17y ago
    Of course, I meant developing for the web (beyond static web sites). I hate the accidental complexity of web apps and, frankly, that's not where my expertise is. My languages of choice are Python for prototyping and (modern) C++ for the actual development. I enjoy working on machine learning types of projects and thinking about algorithms.