Barefoot Doctors * Part of Mao's cultural revolution in 1960's China * Rural villagers given medical training: Community-based and cost-effective * Trained and deployed over 1.5 mil barefoot doctors * Life expectancy rose from 35 to 65 in first 15 years of the programme

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   “[Barefoot developers] are people who are technically savvy and interested in solving problems for themselves and people around them, but don't want to become fully-fledged programmers.

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   At the moment, they rely on low and no-code tools. And they do wildly complex things within them, pushing these apps to their limits.

   They are the kinds of people who would be thrilled to have more agency and power over computers.

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   But they never make it over what I call the command line wall.”