Why Linux Is Not Attracting Young Developers

judeancodersfront writes "Jonathan Corbet recently pointed out at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit that the Linux kernel team was getting older and not attracting young developers. This article suggests the Linux kernel no longer has the same appeal to young open source developers that it did 10 years ago. Could it be that the massive code base and declining sense of community from corporate involvement has driven young open source programmers elsewhere?"

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Design choices

[Wowsers]

Speaking for myself, I grew up mostly with Windows, did some machine language programming, C, and C++, Pascal, and eventually settled on Delphi RAD (souped up Pascal). The problem with Linux is there are many languages to choose from, who knows which GUI would help out for the GUI side of application design and make design a bit simpler for a newbie (like Delphi or Visual Basic), choice of QT, Gnome or KDE and so on.

As Linux is different to Windows, being able to pick one to start with would be good. At that point I will hear someone shout Mono, but that's in some small part mixed up with Microsoft and don't want any part of that any more.

It's the range of choices and thinking about it, the possibility of ending up designing something with dependencies which as a newbie you've never encountered.

It's all really daunting to a new comer to programming in Linux, and why I've not really progressed in it, even though I have an idea for an application to design.