None of which is possible on iPhones and iPads these kids are growing up with. Even if they did escape the attention algorithm long enough to get bored and explore there is nothing to discover it's a locked black box.
iSH, code learning apps, Codecademy via the iPad browser, iBooks, Library Genesis for getting any book in existence for free, Duolingo, cloud coding. I could go on...
There's many, many ways of learning through these devices.
Still a locked down black box designed around attention algorithms and I'm getting tired of pretending it's not.
Who cares? Just because you and many others on HN learned some stuff from fiddling with some computers doesn't mean that learning a language is lesser.
"Ah, you aren't doing things that I did as a kid that lead to my high income! You're trash, kid! Git gud!"
Wasm and WebGL certainly are.
kids have access to magic these days, while algorithmic abuse is rampant, thats not an iPad's core proposition.
You can artificially lock down the device and expose only such things, but default mode is YouTube and Roblox type stuff.
Not sure what your point is here.
It has a generally standards-compliant browser, so while you may not be able to use assembly language and pascal, you can probably connect to something that lets you write and run programs through the browser (whether they actually run in the browser or remotely).
The UI isn't ideal for it, but neither was the membrane keyboard on my Timex/Sinclair 1000.
Err.... Wasm? WebGL?