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▲ andsoitis 13 hours ago

If you could also automate away the reason for being in Swindon in the first place, would you still go?

▲thunky 12 hours ago | parent [-]

The only reason for going to Swindon was to walk there?

If so then of course you still should go.

But the point making of a computer program usually isn't for "the walk".

▲andsoitis 10 hours ago | parent [-]

If you can automated away the reason for being at the destination, then there's no point in automating the way to get to the destination.

similar for automating creating an interpreter with nicer programming language features in order to build an app more easily when you can just automate creation of the app in the first place.

▲int_19h 7 hours ago | parent [-]

"Because it's a shiny toy that I want to play with" is a perfectly valid reason that still applies here. The invalid assumption in your premise is that people either enjoy coding or don't. The truth is that they enjoy coding some things but not others, and those preferences are very subjective.