[mr_crankypants]

I honestly wouldn't bother for programming, per se.

It's great for learning facts, so, if you wanted to, I suppose you could use it for something like memorizing a pile of library functions. But I'm having a hard time seeing that as an efficient thing to do in the age of Google and Stack Overflow and editors with auto-suggestion.

Or if you're a low-level programmer, and want to memorize a new architecture's assembly language, maybe.

Even on the language side: SRS is great for shoehorning a basic vocabulary into your head when you're first getting started with a language. It kind of sucks for learning anything but the most basic grammar, and for getting a feel for how to actually express yourself in a language, or comprehend the language as it would be spoken by a competent speaker. Comprehensible input is still the go-to method for that side of language learning. And once you get to the intermediate or high intermediate stage, SRS isn't even all that great for learning the vocabulary anymore, because it's hard to really internalize the nuances of more advanced vocabulary that way. You'll go farther faster by just watching a lot of TV and reading a lot of books, where you get to encounter the words living in their natural habitat instead of dead and dried and pinned to a notecard.