First, I didn't make it clear that I'm not advocating for introducing types to beginners. I advocate against JavaScript in particular for beginners.

Re: 1, yoy absolutely have to introduce it as soon as you move beyond the most trivial synyax example. Nodejs, browser, whatever you do, the most trivial thing that actually runs somewhere _will_ have callbacks that are run in the event loop queue. Not run in line-order, which is what beginners learn first. Now you have to go down a rabbit whole about the event loop, what and how and when fns gets put on the queue etc etc. Not ideal IMO since it's pretty specific to JS.

2. I buy that it's better than nasty Java, but any weakly typed language applies.

So yea, Python is probably the best in terms of easiness and less paradigm-specific cruft.