digitalmars.D - We need a dlang job network
- monkyyy (25/25) Feb 28 Ai is coming or at least the stock market thinks its coming, by
Ai is coming or at least the stock market thinks its coming, by my count its the 4th tech bubble, randomly 10000 people may get laid off every few days, these people may spin up 10 ai threads writing resumes spaming on linked in and youve seen the bots making fake projects. Its only going to get worse. On the upside its a small community here you could probably fit everyone in single spreadsheet; the ai's are going to less believable. For all I know discord will die, when they get around to doing age verification, or the bots take over; the 5 d people people I talk to, I may lose contact with 4. I get why the d jobs post as c++ jobs, I hate it, but yes it is like a week even for an average programmer to get up to speed. But thats fucking sucks for me. --- You need a spreadsheet with links to resumes, and an invite-only chatroom that only filters on if your actually invested in d and keeps the bots out. Someone with higher then me community standing can be a match maker. For either the gorgeous ai revolution where 1000 start ups automate everything or the even bigger more leveraged, more bullshit, next tech crash you join start ups out of desperation(probably the later) it be nice to have the social infrastructure in place. Im probably not the right person for that, but can someone start that going.
Feb 28
On Saturday, 28 February 2026 at 23:41:12 UTC, monkyyy wrote:...Since time immemorial, people have used social networks to get recommendations for who to hire. Is the person trustworthy and good at the task? So, it's already happening. When a D job comes up, people will ask around if they know any good developers looking for work. Given this is the case, it's important to look after your people network, make a good impression on those around you, and keep in touch with them over the passage of time.
Mar 01
On Sunday, 1 March 2026 at 18:14:57 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:On Saturday, 28 February 2026 at 23:41:12 UTC, monkyyy wrote:what argument are you even making? That since people made bread with wheat with a mortar and pestle, you dont even need windmills?...Since time immemorial, people have used social networks to get recommendations for who to hire. Is the person trustworthy and good at the task? So, it's already happening. When a D job comes up, people will ask around if they know any good developers looking for work. Given this is the case, it's important to look after your people network, make a good impression on those around you, and keep in touch with them over the passage of time.
Mar 01
On Sunday, 1 March 2026 at 23:28:09 UTC, monkyyy wrote:... Based on what? Have you never spoken to someone who was polite *and* struggling to find work in the broken system? ...Since you're always around in these forums, you should try to apply for Dlang maintenance program through D foundation. Unfortunately D is a niche market. I pretty sure that I remember some companies offering job opportunity in D in the past, but it was awhile since I saw any. And I pretty sure this "area" as we know is going to be shaken very hard in the near future. The golden years are gone for this work, and for a lot of things in other areas as well, like being reporter/journalist, there more people making money or getting views (exchanging for $$$) than the old MSM. Matheus.
Mar 01
monkyyy <crazymonkyyy gmail.com> On Monday, 2 March 2026 at 01:31:58 UTC, matheus wrote:On Sunday, 1 March 2026 at 23:28:09 UTC, monkyyy wrote:seems dead, I do my very best to keep the opend discord alive with memes and insightful arguments maybe you should come, adr does this crazy thing where he ships code and like no one deletes my memes.... Based on what? Have you never spoken to someone who was polite *and* struggling to find work in the broken system? ...Since you're always around in these forums, you should try to apply for Dlang maintenance program through D foundation. Unfortunately D is a niche market. I pretty sure that I remember some companies offering job opportunity in D in the past, but it was awhile since I saw any. And I pretty sure this "area" as we know is going to be shaken very hard in the near future. The golden years are gone for this work, and for a lot of things in other areas as well, like being reporter/journalist, there more people making money or getting views (exchanging for $$$) than the old MSM. Matheus.
Mar 01
On Monday, 2 March 2026 at 01:31:58 UTC, matheus wrote:On Sunday, 1 March 2026 at 23:28:09 UTC, monkyyy wrote:I tried upstreams song and dance plenty, they public announced I was in but then backrooms backed out for my data structure rant. For these allocators that are just 2 years away^tm. They just dont care, this is walter enjoying his retirement, theres no one at the wheel.... Based on what? Have you never spoken to someone who was polite *and* struggling to find work in the broken system? ...Since you're always around in these forums, you should try to apply for Dlang maintenance program through D foundation.And I pretty sure this "area" as we know is going to be shaken very hard in the near future. The golden years are gone for this work,There will likely be a drastic increase in mercenary work; we do everything on computers and theres a new tool *at worse* it will return to some baseline. I think it will be a clusterfuck tho since its probaly not going to be "one guy vibe coding 100 apps", teams of 5 tho and these mega corps hoarding talent is dead. We dont have the social structure for putting together small teams, especially here of the >20 solo devs in d, there the reflection game that actually shipped, thats not a great ratio. Id separate it out into plastic bags, heirloom dressers and dams where before there was only simple wooden boxes. All are containers, but all are very different materials, and "material science" changed the game for each. Disposable bags are just better for shopping, they cost .0003 cents; its fine, you treat it as disposible. Hierloom furniture has its place, but its expensive for its use. And then theres like the nist contest for cyptro for what 512 bits mean that 1000 poeple competed. We should have more of all 3, disposible codebases that need to work on one narrow project, artisan code for high quality art, and then public works that are very simple but very important. Fingers crossed the world is sane and does that cleanly.
Mar 01
On Saturday, 28 February 2026 at 23:41:12 UTC, monkyyy wrote:... For all I know discord will die, when they get around to doing age verification, or the bots take over; the 5 d people people I talk to, I may lose contact with 4. ...For what is worth there is the IRC channel as well, and this channel has about ~50 daily. Matheus.
Mar 01