I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I occasionally read posts about people who are 40 being "old". It seems like younger developers don't quite understand why any of their peers would consent to getting older.
I mean, what idiot decides to be 40, eh?
The only other jobs I can think that have anything in common with this are professional athlete or manufactured pop idol.
I'm not sure, but there seems to be a correlation with people who think developers have to be young and people whose careers are a tool to make them wealthier than their peers.
I'm older than the old guy in this post, and I'm not in a fast or slow lane to being a gazillionairre.
Gentoo Linux and VIM worshiper, C developer, network protocol dissector implementer,socket/network programmer, recently entered the embedded world, hater of buzzwords and made up titles
I occasionally read posts about people who are 40 being "old". It seems like younger developers don't quite understand why any of their peers would consent to getting older.
I mean, what idiot decides to be 40, eh?
The only other jobs I can think that have anything in common with this are professional athlete or manufactured pop idol.
I'm not sure, but there seems to be a correlation with people who think developers have to be young and people whose careers are a tool to make them wealthier than their peers.
I'm older than the old guy in this post, and I'm not in a fast or slow lane to being a gazillionairre.
And I think it's all bit... weird.
There's sometimes a very thin line between a young developer and a hipster. Those two are known to overlap every now and then 😄