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by singular 5827 days ago
The problem with this is that once you get beyond really, really trivial code for whichever landscape you happen to working with (this is defined by the design of the language - whatever it's designed to be able to do easily), things get hard and you end up doing something difficult anyway, we label this task 'programming'.

No silver bullet. Getting computers to run code correctly (for whatever version of 'correct' you subscribe to) is hard, there is simply no way round this.

It's almost like saying 'the future of engineering is when both my mum and my little brother can build cars. Neither of them will ever understand mechanics.'

When you think of it that way, the idea that programming is for everyone seems a little silly.