A question for programmers. Is it too late to start programming at age 35, but to get a job not just for fun. ?

It is never too late to do anything in life, even at the age of 40 or 60.

Really, awesome Question this.

nope bro. never is late for learning until you die

No, it's not late to start learning something new. You can learn programming at any age.

Learning programming is very much like learning a language. They say the human facility for new languages falls off dramatically in the 20s.  So I would not expect it to be easy.

Gustave Eiffel, (the builder of Eiffel tower in Paris, and of the structure of the Statue of Liberty in NY) after a while decided that he had enough of building tall things.

And because he got a glimpse at the aerodynamics problems tall towers experiment, and because he was convinced that "heavier than air" planes would eventually overcome, he decided to start a new career as an aerodynamics engineer.

He founded one of the world's first wind tunnel to test structures, with back then, revolutionary method (it is still running today, and making money. I had the occasion to visit it. Some of the control panels commands are still in place. Very "cyber punk" style). And because you can't test real scale model in wind tunnel, he also wrote a book about aerodynamics, model scale, etc, that is still referenced today.

He was 77 when he started to learn this new career.

So, no, it is never too late.

That being said, not everybody is Gustave Eiffel.

Of course not, it's never too late to start learning!  I will admit it's almost always harder for most people to learn something new the older we get, but as long as you know this and not get discouraged...you should do just fine.