[Scarbutt]

Do software engineers stop programming at 35?

[simmons]

Not at all. That's just the median age, and I think the profession tends to have a lot of young people due to the size of the field at the time people chose their careers.

[rzzzt]

Hopefully not :) Check the "Density" tab to see eg. 53 year old programmers recorded for C# and Python.

[jrapdx3]

Even better, looks like there are a few programmers (CPP and HTML) >60 years old, though the graph shows n=0 for those data points, so do those guys actually exist? If so, the oldest programmer is 86.4, now that's impressive.

[rzzzt]

I was also wondering about that. Y-axis values are rounded to integers, even in the data source contained in a script node on the page.

[Mikeb85]

I think there's just enough young programmers in the sample that that's the highest mean age...

[Retra]

Older programmers are probably less likely to use Github.