That's a good point. I like to point out that secretaries were programming Emacs in Lisp back in the day: > programming new editing commands was so convenient

That's a good point. I like to point out that secretaries were programming Emacs in Lisp back in the day: > programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his [Bernie Greenberg] office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html Our (programmers) whole business model is predicated on the normies not realizing they don't really need us. From that POV the JS ecosystems and all their churn are a form of job security. I feel like it's kind of a scam, a Potemkin village of complexity to hide the fact that computer programming just isn't that hard, and most needful software is already written. (Excel is the most successful programming language and IDE in the world, eh?)