Your statement: that more code is being written now is mostly due to the fact that there are many more machines. The population of people that have access to co

Your statement: that more code is being written now is mostly due to the fact that there are many more machines. The population of people that have access to computers is much larger now. If you go back to the 80s, I would wager that the percentage of people that coded (or even dabbled in code) was higher than it is now.