throwaway632

Where do you live? Are there other economic opportunities there for a smart, motivated ex-programmer?

Many programmers are good enough generalists to displace people in other jobs if the work dries up. Just like Teach for America college grads displace and outperform professional classroom teachers.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39631071

If my physician offered LSD to me, would want to be sure it was a last resort. Don't want to risk HPPD without good reason.

After experiencing very mild visual snow for a few months, that's frightening enough for me. My job is looking at a computer screen. I need my vision intact.

> handling integer math correctly

JavaScript doesn't have integers. Everything is a float. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Although it has BigInt now.

Another problem with visual programming is it forces your program to be planar, or at least nearly planar with some crossovers.

In my experience real code can't be represented legibly on a 2D plane. "Generate code map" features of IDEs usually produce incomprehensible graphs, when you try them on actual codebases.

I never tried CodeSee before it shut down, was it any better?

Legitimate excuses for leaving. 99% chance what caused them to leave was they saw the writing on the wall and took on a better opportunity.