I know it's every programmers favourite past time to hate on the web platform, but BASIC had a similar hate, yet it kind of was a well placed language for beginners.
The web browser is the closest modern equivalent of booting into a basic prompt on $YOUR_FAVOURITE_80s_PC, without being as arcane or limited. You can hit f12 and start poking around immediately, on any modern computer... You don't have to install compilers, libraries or complex dev tooling, just write a single plain text file and you have access to a pixel buffer (canvas) in the most documented and optimised scripting language in the world.
I know it's every programmers favourite past time to hate on the web platform, but BASIC had a similar hate, yet it kind of was a well placed language for beginners.
The web browser is the closest modern equivalent of booting into a basic prompt on $YOUR_FAVOURITE_80s_PC, without being as arcane or limited. You can hit f12 and start poking around immediately, on any modern computer... You don't have to install compilers, libraries or complex dev tooling, just write a single plain text file and you have access to a pixel buffer (canvas) in the most documented and optimised scripting language in the world.