javascript:window.alert("Hello World"); Your answer perfectly illustrates my point. You focus on the wrong things. None of your distinctions or interpretation

javascript:window.alert("Hello World"); Your answer perfectly illustrates my point. You focus on the wrong things. None of your distinctions or interpretations of what I say are wrong per-se, they are just not important distinctions. The fact is that people can quickly build a webpage with all the bells and whistles in an environment they undertand without having to install anything or rely on dependencies to get started. They can fiddle around, experiment with it in real time etc. they can play around with it so to speak. It doesn't take itself too serious. It doesn't have a "guardians of the right way" saying how it can and can't be used. You can still go to town and go crazy in making perfectly optimized code but it's not demanding that from you. These are the important bricks in creating something that is powerful. It's ability to function as a toy for the very novice people. To easily provide them with visual feedback with assets they can relate to (cat pictures, video they saw somewhere) etc. This is what VB had this is what HTML/CSS/JS/DOM/(PHP) has in spades. The non-judgement of the experts.