Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?

Post by SixDouble5321 » Thu, May 13, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

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I am not sure what your background is, or whether you are, or have worked as, a freelancer. What I am writing might therefore be old news to you, in which case it would still be interesting to hear how you are thinking about the numbers I'll present. A lot of people write comments such as yours. 11000USD/mth is a very decent salary if you are an employee. What most regular employees completely discount when doing bac…

dude are you insane? in germany your 9000 EUR salary would be huge. and saying you put 1000€/mth away before you calculate is even more insane... You would get a Netto of around ~4.800 €, which would be more than 80% of all germans will make. Also you could easily make more by reducing social payments (which you can do if you get over 6000 € brutto). "950/mth in health insurance", wow....... not sure what an insuranc…

Post by krainboltgreene » Thu, May 13, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

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babel is a transpiler, which is more than just a way to shim shim features in browsers.

God I hate this word, it's like in bad OOP where you classify things just for the sake of having more classes. This belongs to a class called compiler, just call it compiler.

Post by callamdelaney » Fri, May 14, 2021, 10:40 AM UTC

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11k usd to GBP is £7791~ - that's £93.5k / year roughly. Most senior devs should make more than this in London; though this is pre-tax.

London is kind of exceptional because of the high cost of living; everything is more expensive in London.

Post by ThalesX » Sat, May 15, 2021, 5:20 PM UTC

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I'm on the other side of the boat, and presumably the ocean. In Eastern Europe, part of the EU and have a lot of connections working in outsourcing. Some senior level engineers can end up making 4000 - 5000€ per month, which would translate to ~$65.000 per year. I know of very few that make 6000€ or more. Giving the benefit of the doubt and saying that any engineer here will be half the value of one from SV (which, I…

> making 4000 - 5000€ per month, which would translate to ~$65.000 per year I don't know what is the situation in your location, but in one country which fits your description it is customary to talk about the _net_ salary, i.e. after all national and local taxes; in the US, the UK and in many other places the salary is always discussed on pre-tax bases. To make things worse, in that particular country even the offic…

Post by physicsguy » Fri, May 21, 2021, 7:16 AM UTC

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Yeah, it's a little galling. If he can earn more than that in industry, then great! He should totally go and do that. Let Babel die and other people will have to either step up with their time or with money or replace it with something else.

Of course none of the solutions involve you . You just want the product for little to no cost. A product that increases your productivity and helps you earn more. Pay for it? Phshhh... let someone else step in and work for less. I'd rather sit here and ensure that the developers of an extremely popular tool earn less than a great engineering salary. They should work hard because they are passionate. It should not be…