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From a central European point: Many people I know are in relationships where both partners work, good jobs in e.g. engineering, and still cannot afford housing (other than a shoebox) where they live. Also, more educated people usually cannot find work in every random village, requiring a daily commute of both partners (before WFH).

So many people I know just ask themselves why they should hustle if they cannot live in their own place anyway. They just see things differently and enjoy themselves.

I don't know if others saw the same behavior. I'm on Android. And I feel like I'm in some sort of a big A/B test regarding their app. One day, the interface changes one way, couple days later it changes back. Constantly some menu or behavior changes. It's super frustrating. Lately it seems to have stabilized, but it really made me feel like a guinea pig. And maybe that's my inner old person speaking, but most of the changes really made it worse. Thinking about movie streaming apps maybe that's on purpose to make everything require just a couple more clicks. But this is music streaming. Most ppl wanna turn it on and then it sits in your pocket.

Throwaway. Having worked in the same company as the author I have to say that I highly respect their work for the c++ language, the continuous effort it takes bringing those abstract concepts into the standard, many not understanding them easily but eventually benefiting from them as an end user. As a distant colleague it was hard to judge their influence on the codebase though. They do have a reputation in the c++ community but it always felt like I didn't see their footprint in our system (as in meaningful PRs) and that they had very strange working hours, strong opinions and preferred working on unrelated semi-personal projects. I wonder if there was any language and community they'd feel comfortable in.

I strongly believe so, too. Whether you like c++ or not, it can be low or high level and is a swiss army knife of sorts. As a gamedev using c++ I am sure you have learnt a lot about programming and systems and hardware, also about compile-time and runtime. Those concepts are invaluable and help you out in any language and since c++ is so versatile you'll be able to make yourself comfortable in many languages.

E.g. colleagues of mine who have only used Python have no idea about references, heap and stack, L1/2/3 caches and so on. It's a shame.