Alas, opportunity cost. I can’t afford to not keep on my own path right now sticking to the things I have lots of experience with and some degree of mastery.
Ive only ever been able to change stacks when my employer allows me the ramp time so far (otherwise I seem to get hated by lack
Of experience)
Now if they had a use for a highly skilled JS developer who is willing to learn C++ we could talk
I admit the C++ ramp up could be discouraging, but in the case of Chromium, it's a quite well documented project and its code review process is very helpful and friendly.
Other open source engines, like Gecko/Servo or WebKit offer similar incentives to start contributing to those projects, but perhaps Chromium has a bigger community and capacity to provide documentation or assist in the code reviews. In any case, all of them are built on top of an open and receptive communities.
Ive only ever been able to change stacks when my employer allows me the ramp time so far (otherwise I seem to get hated by lack Of experience)
Now if they had a use for a highly skilled JS developer who is willing to learn C++ we could talk