how old is the typical /prog/ user

Sometimes this place seems like only 30 year-old boomers visit it.
>slow as fuck
>not up to date with memes
>trouble understanding simple things like greentexts
So how old are you anon?

Old enough to have learned from Charles Babbage himself.

oh god, the generationally challenged guy meme from pol is here

slow vs multiple same threads, fast.
not disabling meme updates, fast.
muh greentext, fast.

Is it age that concerns you?

>>1

30 year-old boomers

I don't think you know what a boomer is.

>tfw IQ is a function of age
200 you say?

public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}
public String getAge() {
return age;
}

yeah, this site is for oldheads. people who were on 4chan during the late aughts. I'm 25 and on death's door.

>30 year-old boomers
Thats millenials (born in 1981-1996 age 37-22), if you're younger you're generation Z.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
If you're older(born early-to-mid 1960s to the early 1980s.) you're
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
Boomers are from early- to mid-1940s and ending anywhere from 1960 to 1964.

the only boomers to visit /prog/ are Mentifex and probably some /pol/ refugees.

e/pol/in boomer maymay, /pol/ro

37. Never indented my code.

s O C i a L m E D I a ! ! ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

>>11
the fuck
anus === you
anus bot is you
fuck man
rot computer rot code rot spirit

>>13
no
anus === >>10

>>13

anus === you

false

>>12
Yeah, its ironic but millenials were raised on desktops while Z-kids were given user-friendly mobile device that only required tapping in the right places.

>>16
Apple bans compilers from the app store because they're paranoid about malware and jailbreaking. So you can't code on iPhones or iPads, unless you count web-based garbage that's really fucking slow and pretty much unusable. Sure, some apps teach shitty web dev stuff (mostly basics and frontend rather than ``real'' CS), but it's just not the same. They are not programming-friendly devices.

ChromeOS is just a browser. Sure, you can run Linux via chroot (which I tried, and it sucks ass), but most people don't. As such, Chromebooks are also unable to be development devices. Sure, you can do a bunch of workarounds to run Android apps, but it's glitchy and you're just stuck with the Android ecosystem, which isn't great.

I've tried using IDEs in Android. They're slow, not as well-developed as desktop dev tools, and overall just a shitty experience.

In short, only macOS/Linux/Windows are viable for real programming. But younger people are using iOS, Android, and ChromeOS.

Before my generation, computers came with programming manuals. During my generation, devices were geared towards word processing (people I knew acted like computers were just for typing up papers and that's it), and eventually shifted towards communication and entertainment. Programming was no longer the focus of computing, even in my day. But at least PC building was in its golden years then, and I got interested in hardware, which eventually led to me getting interested in programming.

Now? It's not even possible to program or tinker on mainstream devices. We have closed systems that you can't swap the hardware out, the proprietary software is all locked down, centralized app stores (yes, sideloading exists for Android, but it sucks and most people don't do it anyway), dumbed-down UX that assumes users are mouth-breathing retards, and even on laptops and desktops, issues with UEFIs and SecureBoot that can make installing Linux harder.

Devices these days are less about content creation or learning, and much more about being a mindless consumer. Hit the like button. Take a selfie. Tweet your garbage opinions. Netflix and chill. Yelp. Take a photo of your food and put it on Instagram. Snapchat. Tinder.

Most people don't program anymore. Most people don't know shit about the technology they use and rely on every single day. It's seen as dorky to take an interest in it.

I mean, just check out this shitty Apple ad, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQB2NjhJHvY

We are approaching levels of anti-intellectualism not seen for quite some time.

>>17

Before my generation, computers came with programming manuals.

Whoa! Are u some kind of alien? Ah mean, your whole poast as mini-cited proximally is an intelligent, well thought-out, sagacious thought-piece on the general field of consumer transgenerational computing -- something STRICTLY verboten here on this dungheap outpost of the DARKNET cesspools of vicious malcontent, basement-dwelling most-like-ly-to-self-destruct, hey-will-you-sign-my-annual-NO-GET-LOST family-black-sheep moronic toxic-bachelor flunktards so-do-i-get-my-point-across? Thinking is not allowed here on /prog/ only bloviations of the third-encounter kind. Screech! There has been a massive fissure in The MATRIX, Comrade Keanu. Stay right where you are. We will come and get you. Ah-oo-ga! Ah-oo-ga! A smart one has escaped from the asylum. SOund the alarm. GENERAL QUARTERS.

We are approaching levels of anti-intellectualism not seen for quite some time.

>>18
very funny

hurrrrrrrrr

>>19
I think he's freaking out because if you think computers are bad, just try peeking under the hood of your friendly national government.

>>16
Thank god. I don't want to face the same fate that old programmers faced when millennials replaced them.

Everyone assumed that the younger kids would get better and better at technology and be more inspired to learn math and shit. Nope. They're all happy with their shitty little phone apps, and the few who want to do programming just want to make more shitty little phone apps.

check my dubs

>>22
yourDubs.checked = true;

>>23
What programming language is this?

>>24
niggerlang

>>24

It could be any number of languages, where yourDubs is an instance of some sort of class, and it has a public boolean property called checked.

>>26
Did you just assume the non-staticness of that member variable/property?

19yo boomer here

>>28
Kids of boomers are often called "echo Boomers"

>>29
gentoo:~ nikita$ echo Boomers
Boomers