It depends a lot more on how calculus is taught than it depends on calculus itself. If your calculus education is: learn these formulas by rote memory and app

It depends a lot more on how calculus is taught than it depends on calculus itself. If your calculus education is: learn these formulas by rote memory and apply them to this set of problems. Yes, calculus, and in fact any and all the mathematics, will be mostly useless for you. You don't need the formulas. But, if your calculus education is: OK, there is this limit. No, I will not tell you the proof. You will find a proof of it by yourself, and you will show it to the class. Or: this is the volume. Imagine a way to calculate the volume! How would you do it? Or thousands more ways to stress your creativity to the max. Writing proofs is the most intense workout of creativity I have experienced. And it feels like writing code, in a way. The difference is in a mathematical proof you are also the compiler, the syntax checker, the interpreter, and the person who writes the program. If that's the way you learn calculus, not as a formula applier, but as a solution finder, then yes, calculus will make you a much better software developer. I say this based on personal experience, I consider my proper mathematical education, having to think about proofs in linear algebra, to have a very positive impact in my capacity to write software later. And I had been a software developer for ten years before the linear algebra and calculus courses. So it's not related to acquiring experience as developer later.