I see this from the Stack Overflow survey. But that’s not limited to open source.
So apperently they stsrt dying after age 45…interesting.
You think I’m programming for free at my age?
I did not respond to this survey, but I’m an open source “programmer” and I’m in the 4% group in that chart.
And how was the civil war?
Which one?
Fwiw this chimes with my online experience
my guess, based solely on the comments and posts I see on the lemmyverse, is about 16.
average working age?
Like, who is coding the apps that I use? Teenagers? Senior citizens? Mothers in a mid-life crisis?
It would be a hard number to range. Do you lump part time, full time and hobbyist into the range?
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How long is a string?
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???
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.
