Do it. I don't think I would think twice. You are in the wrong place, my friend. Your teammates don't get together and they won't understand you or your situation.

There's a tool called Novoresume and it's pretty cool. Another one for developers is DoSelect I came across which builds your developer resume. You can integrate your GitHub and Stack Overflow accounts also. It's really cool.

You are using it. That's it. You create something so that someone else uses it. Not just you want to create it because of your hobby or something. If everyone starts creating something of their own who will use the product except the one who creates it? None. It's necessary you learn some exceptional skills that may be coding if you are from the different background & you get an appreciation of but saying it's a MUST is not right.

Got your point. We need more software agree, but when there is no hardware build then why do you need a software? So saying programming is a necessity is a complete wrong phrase by the mindset of some programmers.

Nobody is sure about the future, yeah.

None taken. It was always relevant. It's a skill and people have different skills. It's just that, the focus is more on software and people might not care about other things. The only thing you hear these days is "IT industry as its peak" and no appreciation for someone who makes IT possible.

This is exactly the answer I was looking for. Thanks. =)

Yes, It's a human perk and lots of companies don't do that.

Respect their values and opinions. Perks like food and other things won't last long.