"It's immensely important that great poems be written, but it makes not a jot of difference who writes them." - Ezra Pound
Writers and coders strike me as similar. They learn and understand the backbone of language, they play with it, and they ultimately create and destroy on top of it. It comes as no surprise that some great Coders are also great writers (here's. some. examples).
But then, why aren't more writers on GitHub?
I don't mean tech bloggers. I mean the journalist who has dozens of back-and-forths with her editor. I mean the MFA who has re-written the same sentence twenty times. I mean the teenager who is writing the next Great American Novel. You know, Writers.