> This is the big hurdle; to leap over it you have to be able to create the program text somewhere, compile it successfully, load it, run it, and find out where your output went. With these mechanical details mastered, everything else is comparatively easy.
For beginners, getting the development environment figured out can be a significant roadblock.
I personally think that learning the nuts and bolts of how things work is where one should start. What compiles what, where is what stored, what process executes what, how does that thing know where that other thing is located etc.
If I love websites and now I want to build one, spending more time on fundamentals than is necessary to impart a general scheme and more importantly the metaphors of those fundamentals would be a waste.
Simple JS, after you figure out which toolchain to use and how to configure it for your development and deployment environments...
> Simple JS, after you figure out which toolchain to use and how to configure it for your development and deployment environments...
And god help you when any of your dependencies undergo a major update ;).