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How is it that the largest portion of people responding had over 10 years of experience in software development but the largest portion of people responding were between 21-29 yeas of age?

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The largest bucket may have been 21-29 years at 39%. However, the next largest was ages 30-39 at 31%, and considering all ages 30+ you have 49% of respondents. Assuming only people aged 30+ had 11+ years of experience, that would only account for half of them (49% to 25%). That doesn't sound implausible.

60% used personal and biz mix. 20% used personal.

All my co-worker kids code in python. My 8 year coded python stuff on a kano for Minecraft. So it seems reasonable that folks would work on more and more projects unpaid/oss before entering the workforce.

I like that python is both super easy and super professional and can be used for both.

I suppose because experience doesn't necessarily mean professional experience and many people start programming in their teens or as kids.

I'm sad that the over 40 crowd is so low. After years of C#/Java/C++, I want my next gig to be Python.

Hmm, I spent >10 years with Python and on large/important apps it's hard to refactor and slow. (PS they're still using Python 2 as well). I want to pivot to C# on Linux / .Net Core.

That wouldn't be too bad. I'm over Windows. More specifically I'm over enterprise development using Windows. C# is a great language.

i started as a professional developer at 18 years old (i didn't go to college because i didn't have enough money since i was already living by myself), and i'm 30 years old. so 12 years as a developer (with about 9 mainly with python).

i know at least another 5~6 people with the same career as me (bar the python experience).

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