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And also these old C hands don't seem to get paid (significantly) more than a regular web-dev who doesn't care about hardware, memory, performance etc. Go figure.


Pay is determined by the supply and demand for labor, which encompass many factors beyond the difficulty of the work.

Being a game developer is harder than being an enterprise web services developer. Who gets paid more, especially per hour?


They do where I'm from, and spend most of their time cleaning up the messes that the regular web-devs create...




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