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Discussion on: Programmers who only code at work

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There are a lot of things that are only possible coding at home, for example, the whole desmocene thing, most of the people that participate or just follow desmocene events have a work where they can't practice or create something related to the demoscene like intros, music, shader coding, executable graphics, etc... These things are learned and mastered at home.

What about the ludum dare? People participate in ludum dares from their homes, and that means that part of the team code a game at home (and propably they learned to do that coding at home first).

What about new projects published on github by individuals at their homes that eventually become well known production tools in companies (probably because someone tried it at home)?

What about people that wants to change their careers? I was coding for an insurance company for 5 years and I realized that I wanted to make videogames and get a job in the videogame industry, how do you thing I reached this dream? Coding pet projects at home of course.

If you don't code at home, you are a slave of whatever your job wants from you, you can not learn new things if your job doesn't require it, you can't improve your skills if your job doesn't demand for it.

For a lot of people coding just at work it's ok, and I'm ok with that, but coding at home It's a very valuable activity that even people that doesn't code at home get benefited from, and every time I will require to learn/try/practice/understand/master something that I can't do at work, I will code it at home.