Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 8 21:33:56 PST 2015
On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 20:34:16 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
> On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
> wrote:
>> Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D
>> language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult
>> decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years
>> and nine months.
>
> When I read this post one of the things that crossed my mind
> was how Andrei could afford to do this, but personal economic
> issues tend to be sensitive matters so I didn't presume to ask.
> It seems that someone else asked it (very directly) on reddit,
> and Andrei replied. His answer is basically that he's taking a
> large pay cut to do this:
>
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3ioy9b/andrei_alexandrescu_c_guru_leaves_facebook_to/cuip1pd
>
> Given the implicit donation (the financial opportunity cost)
> that Andrei is making to D, I just wanted to say: thank you.
But wouldn't his Facebook stock alone allow him to live
comfortably with no job? I think it is a good decision when you
have reached financial independence to do what you most want to
do.
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