It's one step up from Excel, and more rope to hang yourself in; but it's not like it's going to replace the kind of work that any serious developer would miss.

It's one step up from Excel, and more rope to hang yourself in; but it's not like it's going to replace the kind of work that any serious developer would miss. It never will; systematic, abstract thinking will always take practice and some amount of predisposition. And interacting with computers all day is not really the party that non-developers seem to think, it's not primarily about syntax and interface; many can't deal with the frustration and uncertainty.