To each their own. Yes, I'm sure one day more people will use software that allows them to put together amazing programs using complex GUIs that do wonderful ma

To each their own. Yes, I'm sure one day more people will use software that allows them to put together amazing programs using complex GUIs that do wonderful magic. These may be business programs that do statistics, or games, and we've already seen both (hello Excel, hello game studios). The problem, as it always has been, is that point when you want to do more and suddenly find yourself in asm land or looking to talk to mysterious "drivers". After all, what's a port anyways? Does that mean my computer has Docker built-in? As I hint, people will hit that wall of mystery, and lower-level programming become inevitable. After that happens, they eventually become accustomed to this idea of telling a computer what to do by strict commands according to a specific protocol. For the average guy who never gets into it, you could tell him it's kind of like talking to a dog. "Sit." It sits. "Love." It wags its tail. "You're so smart, pooch." It gives you a blank stare... and keeps wagging it's tail. These days, when I look for a programming language, it's not about the syntax sugar, it's more about the feature set that comes with the language: things like the module and build system (e.g. Java is pretty easy), the ease at which both complex and trivial tasks can be accomplished, and the availability of support community and libraries.