[jylam]

That's very fun, very demanding, very well paid (when you have experience and know what you are doing) (as much as you can with C)

[RealityVoid]

Very well paid? Where the hell is that? I mostly do embedded and IMO the pay just isn't as good as web dev stuff.

[akavi]

Both a specific request here and a general proposal for a norm here on HN: Can you be more numerically explicit when you say "well paid"?

Software development is a very segmented world. In the various social circles I'm connected to, I know devs who were thrilled to finally be making 6 figures 7 years out of college (in line-of-business software in a regional hub) and devs who were disappointed not to have crossed 400 k$/yr in that same time span (at FAANG in the bay area).