If you could teach someone programming entirely in a browser console window, you may have a point. But you can't. Eventually, you will end up having to explain the many intuitive javascript quirks that have built up over the years. Including with ES6.
New developers will marvel at the simplicity and ease-of-use of javascript while they struggle to understand why this doesn't refer to the thing they expect it to, depending on the syntax they use to declare a function.
I dont think your "this" example is viable since every language has its parts which seem normal to everyone except begginers (like how a lot of starters i know asked me why 9 / 2 equals 4 when they try to do some random stuff in python).
Also, i think most people start wondering about what "this" means after they learned the basics (at least i did, idk about others)
I think almost any popular language is okay for starters, and just saying one of them isnt because of some quirks doesnt make that much sense since u can sya that about any other:)
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If you could teach someone programming entirely in a browser console window, you may have a point. But you can't. Eventually, you will end up having to explain the many intuitive javascript quirks that have built up over the years. Including with ES6.
New developers will marvel at the simplicity and ease-of-use of javascript while they struggle to understand why
thisdoesn't refer to the thing they expect it to, depending on the syntax they use to declare a function.I dont think your "this" example is viable since every language has its parts which seem normal to everyone except begginers (like how a lot of starters i know asked me why 9 / 2 equals 4 when they try to do some random stuff in python).
Also, i think most people start wondering about what "this" means after they learned the basics (at least i did, idk about others)
I think almost any popular language is okay for starters, and just saying one of them isnt because of some quirks doesnt make that much sense since u can sya that about any other:)