Why Programming Is Hard to Fundamentally Improve (2017)
I think programming is easy for lots of people, we (devs&#x2F;techies) just don&#x27;t talk about it because it happens in <i>spreadsheets</i>.  Excel is the most successful IDE.<p>I&#x27;ve come to suspect that <i>syntax</i> is a <i>MacGuffin</i> and programming languages are a dead end.<p>We&#x27;re complexity junkies and I suspect we know darn well (some of us consciously but most of us only unconsciously) that if we created a truly usable-by-the-masses IDE it would put us out of work, we wouldn&#x27;t get paid to mainline our drug of choice.