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Shit code will come from non-coders at the same rate as from coders. The reason that your buggy and dangerous missions critical piles of application (that eventually DID something useful for whoever used that) is garbage is because the people who coded didn't know a single thing about coding, and simply dived into it trying to achieve something they needed, and it worked [up to a point].

That's the whole point of this, learning to code gives you the option to make something you otherwise would consider magic.

You say you do not expect your lawyer to learn to code, but do you expect him to have basic mathematical tools to be able to have a conversation with him about stocks and options and percentages, right? Well, in the not so distant future these simple mathematical tools that we learn early on in life will be incorporated with basic programming tools.

No, lawyers still won't be able to code a Facebook from scratch, but they will be able to code basic HTML template for legal documents, and generate simple reports when they need to. Obviously they'll have secretaries and code monkeys that will do their bidding for money, as always, but they will still know the basic principles of software development, unlike today that most non-technical people consider software as black magic.

I agree more with this rather than the other one - I see coding as speaking, writing, cooking [food], or composing music. Sure, not everyone in the world HAS to know how to compose music, but we still know how to compose a simple melody in our heads, and we sure as hell need to know how to write.

Coding isn't hard, coding is simple - simpler than a lot of other complicated things we have to learn as we grow up - and as such it should be mandatory in a world governed by computers.

Well? I'm stuck on india a few hours now, any clues?

Yes. That's the basic idea that lead me to the above post, but from what I hear (no benchmarks or test though) the dropbox cli is too expensive on the resources.

And even if that's a non-issue, what I'm talking about is a bit more robust solution - providing the user with some basic tools (like doing markdown/haml pages) right off the bat without any additional hacking.

On top of that, installing dropbox-cli as simple as it might be, is not simple enough and requires access to the shell (that not everyone might have), running a daemon, and it's not super secure (you need to store your root password, no?). My idea is that whenever you install a drophost, you get a new folder in your dropbox with the name of your host (i.e. /dropbox/drophost/mydomain.com/) which is simple to navigate and maintain multiple sites.