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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