I think the joke is that people who don’t know how years work would think 4999 BC was before 5000.

Professional software developer here. It’s definitely a career. I do agree it’s like art, it requires you to fit stuff together like a puzzle to get it to work. But I don’t think that makes it less of a “serious” career - there’s a lot of money in the field and as the world gets more and more invested in computing it’s become a very in-demand skill.

I feel called out by it on a personal level

Yep. 196 communities are getting pretty highly upvoted too which is why you’re seeing them so much when browsing all.

Man, this really sucks. Great example of how the over-consolidation of the industry into mega corporations is bad for gaming in general.

Heart goes out to all the devs that’ll be laid off by this.