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2026-06-26 22:06 UTC

A bit different over here in the EU I guess, but similar too; got my apartment almost paid off, social security is guaranteed, retirement will be like 1k€/m in like 9 years… Hopefully RAM prices will have fallen by then 😁, or maybe we old C/C++ devs will be the new COBOL guys…

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@MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2026-06-29 14:51

Hope springs eternal. There seems to be a strong movement to make Rust replace both C++ and C#. I should have taken python more seriously when I first saw it in Linux about 20 years ago, given the fever dream that grips the world now. If I can rekindle the joy I used to have in software, I am going to just do game mods and Android FOSS app development. Right now the thought of doing development practically gives me hives. Talk about PTSD. The thing I loved since writing assembly on a commodore 64 now brings dread. I suppose the fact (ha!) that I no longer have to know a programming language (but I have to have several memorized to get through the first interview) should make it easy. I have to admit my brief forays into local LLM assisted programming impressed me. I just can’t motivate right now to “get serious”.

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