Richard Hipp (SQLite) almost 60, Ken Thompson 76/and Rob Pike 60s (go), Linus Torvalds almost 50, Guido von Rossum 56 (python), Jonathan Blow 46 (braid game), RMS even - the list is endless.
Most of the best and most experienced programmers today are older - the first generation to have actually grown up with computers in the home, and back then be forced to program at much lower levels because the machines were so much more limited.
Having to understand how things work as opposed to whatever JavaScript framework du jour is popular this week.
The ageism meme is complete horseshit pushed forward by business types looking to convince socially awkward 20-something men to give away their one and only youth, so they can cash in on it.
Look throughout history did musicians forget how to play? Writers forget how to write? Mathematicians and philosophers lose their edge? Not at all, many of their best works came much later in life.
Ethan Evans
Old programming languages mostly like cobol or rpg to support old ass bank infrastructure. the market isn't big though
Levi Stewart
When we hit our 40s I wonder what the old guy language will be
Sebastian Collins
These. The old guys are managing young people that do shit jobs or doing work at places too good to hire young people for shit jobs.
Hudson White
My electrical engineer dad gets paid [spoiler]160K plus bonus[/spoiler] for tech support of chip products that are older than most of the college grads that are hired as junior engineers.
He says that the young faggots that get hired nowadays literally don't know how some of the old shit works because they don't even learn about that tech in college nowadays, they are on to new shit.
Ryder Fisher
Your boomer dad with decades of experience gets paid less than a new graduate? That must be demoralizing.
Adrian Nguyen
those are innovators and the top of their field. What about the average guy
Eli Wright
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Jason Walker
As somebody who started working in the public sector recently, this. I work for a big IT devision for my state and most of my peers are around 40-60 years old, they don't mind the lower pay if they have more liberties timewise and can leave workstuff behind the second they clock off.
