Same here! I am now actually working in compilers, which is one thing I'm really passionate about, but not something I was doing professionaly. I managed to turn a toy project and some blog posts into an actual job at almost 40, so, thank you HN!

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saagarjha 5 days ago | parent [-]

If I might ask what does you employer need compiler experience for?

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andreabergia 5 days ago | parent [-]

I work at ServiceNow, which sells an enterprise platform and a ton of products built on top of it. Internal teams and customers can extend the platform by writing JavaScript, hence we have a JS runtime in the platform (the venerable https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/), which our team works on.

	▲	saagarjha 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Huh, interesting. Thanks!