"What I'm talking about is a solution for people who don't even want to know what a "foundation" or "mortar" is. Allowing them to learn and build only what they would actually need to care about: a house."

Sounds pretty ridiculous, doesn't it? Why is it that people think that all this computery stuff like syntax and semantics, compilers, and operating systems is superfluous fluff invented by programmers to gatekeep their profession, instead of tools we created to actually do our job?

Well, there is a lot of complexity on them that comes on them that could theoretically be removed, at a pretty reasonable cost.

This is the original idea behind IDEs, in that they would come with everything set-up, and you could just jump into the code. But we lost this, maybe because of the web, or the great IDE extinction of the 00's, or the proliferation of non-integrated OSS, or some other thing that happened at the time, and now IDEs are about as hard to configure as a normal build environment.

I’m not really sure how one could be w computer programmer without knowing anything about computers…