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> The hello world has never been easier to do.

Agreed. The hard parts of programming have been removed ( especially for entry level people ).

> We have communities and cheap, fast computers.

And online tutorials ( youtube, coursera, etc ).

Learning to program today is much easier than just 10 years ago.

Not only that, the setup to start programming today is much simpler. Not only does almost everyone have a computer, there are IDEs/programming suites available that eases you into programming.