I don't see how they would be left behind, unless you mean being left out of the job market for software engineers. And that isn't enough reason to say everyone

I don't see how they would be left behind, unless you mean being left out of the job market for software engineers. And that isn't enough reason to say everyone should code. It doesn't seem to me like it's comparable to literacy at all. While I need to be literate to use anything that was written in English, I don't need to take CS101 to use anything that was written in code. e: And while it's useful to produce written English all the time, we would have to be living in a crazy universe for it to be worth it for the average person to need to produce code.