I’m an older dude whose phase of staying up all night playing was back in the early console days. I prefer in-person tabletop RPGs like D&D, Traveller and Call of Cthulhu. Just not into computer games anymore, but that and social media seem to be most people’s primary computer activities.
Game chatter has changed over the years - I used to see a lot of talk about graphics quality and massively powerful hardware - maybe that was during a period when it was rapidly improving, I dunno. But the current focus seems to be more on game industry business decisions sucking.
Anyway I’m just wondering how common it is to use computers more for coding and other technical non-game stuff.
My friend, a longtime Java dev, hasn’t written a line of code since his last day at work. I do lots of hobby coding and will probably die at the keyboard lol.
I can see why
I work with several devs who would rather never see a computer again.
LOL there should be an Amish-like community where some tech people can live after they leave the field.
Low tech commune.
Or maybe just a place that has tech but they’re not involved at all in running it, and definitely not expected to be the default tech support lol.
I was trying to imagine it and can’t imagine seeing new tech and not putting my hands on it.
They would have counselors available.
I’m not cut out for this.
Ha, I’m the other way. I recovered my joy in a coding as a hobby once I stopped doing it at work. And yes, it was Java at work, and no, not Java as a hobby.
Similar- my web career was ASP and ASP.Net, but once I finally retired I gave up C# and dove into Node.js. Way more fun IMO.
My first web project was a contract job at Microsoft in the Visual Studio team, when it was still called Visual Interdev. ASP was so new my boss said only a couple hundred people in the world knew how use it. That was a life-changing moment - I’m talking sunbeams bursting in and angels singing. I remember thinking, “Holy crap how did I land here???” From that day on I did nothing but web dev.