All good points, however Bret Victor has specifically been showing off alternatives to low level programming by building very high levels of abstraction. He has

All good points, however Bret Victor has specifically been showing off alternatives to low level programming by building very high levels of abstraction. He has even apparently said that he thinks the development community is purposely keeping programming complicated to maintain the demand for their specialized skills. I think the law of leaky abstractions is why it is simply not possible to elevate programming to a level of abstraction that allows people without specialized skills to implement arbitrary applications.