Well the JS dev wouldn't be moving to c++... They'd be learning rendering in JS. Or a c++ Dev with rendering experience would be learning JS so they could utilise their rendering experience in a new language.
Those are the 2 scenarios. And we are assuming the JS guy is reasonably good, though finding good JS developers is its own problem!
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All due respect but the average JavaScript dev, even experienced, would struggle with learning real-time rendering skills and end up a productive member of a team in the time frame of most projects.
JavaScript is forgiving in terms of types etc (ergo less burden on the dev compared to C++) - memory and performance requirements for rendering frames in real-time in C++? Requires a lot of insight, even a good generalist (non-real-time specialist) C++ dev would likely struggle.
I've seen people attempt to transition from Java to other typed languages and struggle, seemingly intelligent folk. It turns out to be a infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters scenario - they "deliver" something, but it's not fit for purpose nor idiomatic.Last edited by TheGreenBastard; 30 March 2019, 08:10.
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Opinion: easier to learn a new paradigm on the same language, or transfer existing sk
I work in a reasonably specialist field... Realtime 3d rendering etc. We have projects in JS and C++. My view is that a good C++/OpenGL guy can quite easily adapt to JS/WebGL, faster than an experienced JS coder can learn the whole field of 3d rendering. But others disagree, and I might be biased by my own experience - I've always found learning a new language easy.
What do others think? If you're needing a developer to work in a specific field in a specific language but you can only find people who meet one of those, which do you pick?
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