On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 18:47:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 05/24/2016 02:03 PM, Thiez wrote:
Does the
experience help someone getting a job in the industry?
Probably not, again with the same caveat. I speculate
experience with one of the other CSS scripting engines would
also not be very helpful in landing a job as a software
engineer.
Not at a big company, but in small companies with maybe three
engineers, broad skillsets are very much in demand. Even if
you're nominally a backend engineer, you can't say, "Sorry, I
just don't *do* CSS."
On my second-last contract there were about two engineers on the
project at any time, and I felt like I wrote nearly as much
JavaScript and (SASS) CSS as Python.
Pulling Ruby in as a dependency for dlang.org would be sucky, but
anything other than SASS or LESS (or something syntax compatible)
is going to turn away a lot of contributors. A homebrew macro
system would make most run screaming, no matter how easy it is to
learn.
