[onion2k]

Yes! And No!

It is in the sense that it takes time to learn, and the industry moves fast. Keeping up with new tech and new trends while also having 'old person stuff' like a family, a bed time, other responsibilities like fixing your house and mowing your lawn, make it far harder than if you're a young person who can sit down at 6pm after a day at work and grind through tutorials until 3am instead. As you get older that stops really being much of an option.

If that sense programming is definitely a young person's game.

But old dinosaur developers like me (I'm 45) don't really need to do that to still be useful. We understand that programming is much more about communication and people than it is about code. I still enjoy learning, and applying the craft of software engineering, but I get a lot more from solving problems and making people's lives better with what I build. If I can see that a problem will be better solved without 'moar codez' then that's the route I'll take.

In that sense programming requires life experience, and that definitely isn't a young person's game.

[Fiahil]

> grind through tutorials until 3am

I'm not sure this is a valuable use of your time. It's not an option a young person will miss as they get older.