[xwolfi]

Well we'll never reach a state where anyone can code. I have pans, a supermarket nearby, cookbooks and a belly, still I'm never gonna be able to cook, I snooze after 30 minutes, even if I succeed once, I get bored and stop for months etc.

Simplifying to the point a grandma could make an app isn't gonna make any grandma WANT to make apps. And that's fine, there's no issue, we don't have to make more people code and those who want, will, even if all we had was assembly and a light board...

Which I think is the spirit of your quote basically.

[archerx]

That’s a bad comparison, cooking has been done by people for thousands of years, your problem with cooking is laziness, there is nothing mentally or physically stopping your from learning to cook.

I do agree with your second paragraph and it’s more that you DON’T want to cook versus you being unable to cook.

[ickelbawd]

Thats a bad comparison, coding has been done by people for thousands of man-years, your problem with coding is laziness, there is nothing mentally or physically stopping you from learning to code.

I do agree with your second paragraph and it’s more that you DON’T want to code versus you being unable to code.

:)

[achierius]

This is pithy but won't. There's a clear difference between software (no evidence that everyone can do it capably) and cooking (thousands of years of nigh everyone from every background doing so). Laundering it as "thousands of man hours" doesn't change the fact that we've had less than a century of evidence for people coding, and for most of that only a small subsection of the population has picked it up.