Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO.

[deech@mastodon.social]

Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO.

[deech@mastodon.social]

I think is my version of the quit all this and become a farmer fantasy.

[superfunc@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@deech I worked with a guy with so much institutional knowledge they let him write everything in VB and made us translate it into C#, he really knew how to live

[deech@mastodon.social]

@superfunc "How about *you* figure out what's in this Dim I'm late for my Battle Of Gettysburg re-enactment"

[dwardoric@chaos.social]

@deech Word!

[d6@merveilles.town]

@deech 40-year career maintaining a mainframe-era card catalog system for a rich but obscure library

[deech@mastodon.social]

@d6 what does escaping the cycle of samsara feel like?

[d6@merveilles.town]

@deech the last stage is getting over your own survivor's guilt

[t0yv0@vmst.io]

@deech you could do a lot worse than Delphi