Aren't languages really special, though? I remember reading one's ability to learn even new sounds almost vanishes, which explains many people's accents, and wh

Aren't languages really special, though? I remember reading one's ability to learn even new sounds almost vanishes, which explains many people's accents, and which means it's more like a separate process in the brain. Coding, on the other hand, is a general, abstract skill. So I'd expect ability to learn coding to drop off at roughly the same rate as everything else with age. I think it's one of those things where there is a small negative effect, but it's so small that even if you knew about it, you'd still have many much more important things to think about and so you'd be right to ignore it.