[lifeisstillgood]

Agreed (in fact my profile claims I do artisanal software :-)

But I go further - software is a form of literacy, and everyone should learn to code, just as at some point we thought “hey laws are written down, novels are great, policy manuals and international letters help, let’s teach the peasents to read” and all of a sudden we have working class people going to university and discovering things like Relativity and Covid vaccines.

Software is literacy and we will all benefit when we can run / examine our society through it.

Book to follow

[avaldez_]

> But I go further - software is a form of literacy, and everyone should learn to code,

Why though? I've read a lot of people saying _everyone should know how to code_ but why? I don't see the same trend for example with physics, maths or music, which are arguably a form of literacy too. As cool as it may seem on paper, I can imagine everyone being able to write papers on topological quantum field theory, studying homotopy type theory as a hobby and shipping react to-do apps while playing Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata.

[lifeisstillgood]

But why not? Not so long ago we did not teach the poor / women / slaves to read because similar reasons .

One day we hope there will be sufficient wealth created in society, and distributed fairly so that toil is eliminated and all humans can choose to work - at which point what the hell is everyone going to do other than sit around and play guitar