How old is the average open source programmer?

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• lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I see this from the Stack Overflow survey.Stack Overflow Survey 2024

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did not respond to this survey, but I’m an open source “programmer” and I’m in the 4% group in that chart.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And how was the civil war?

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  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fwiw this chimes with my online experience

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So apperently they stsrt dying after age 45…interesting.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You think I’m programming for free at my age?

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    • TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah all that pizza and monster energy ain’t good for the body

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• Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How long is a string?

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think scientists have theories on that.

    …what? Is that not what string theory is??? Well apperently I do not have a working knowledge on string theory then!

    …I don’t actually. No clue what it really is. Apperently the universe is made up of strings at a molecular level or something? Or maybe space is full of strings? I DON’T KNOW, OK???

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    • Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ok…

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  n

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It would be a hard number to range. Do you lump part time, full time and hobbyist into the range?

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• Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would guess there’s an upward slope of young contributors that reduce significantly at post-grad and early career ages (e.g. early-mid-twenties) followed by another upward gradient on a 5-10 year delay that peaks in the late 30s then falls somewhat linearly up to 60s.

  The median age of the younger/learning cohort might be 19 and falling. The median age of the established developer cohort might be mid-40s and climbing.

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• IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  my guess, based solely on the comments and posts I see on the lemmyverse, is about 46.

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• dudenas@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  average working age?

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  • lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like, who is coding the apps that I use? Teenagers? Senior citizens? Mothers in a mid-life crisis?

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