[lordnacho]

Well, of course. If you look at the sort of thing ordinary people are interested in, programming is now quite prominent in several respects:

- Every interesting business requires programmers. Uber, AirBnB, Tesla, Facebook, Google -everything that is making headlines- require coders as a key ingredient, rather than as waterboys. That wasn't always the case when I was growing up.

- It's clear for everyone to see that coding jobs pay better than most jobs.

- There's a degree to which coding jobs are interesting which is becoming ever more clear to people. Where jargon was once a sign that you were a nerd, now it's a sign that you're informed on some of the things driving modern society.