Agreed, JS is more verbose than Ruby and Python and vanilla JS is a strange language for newcomers what with its prototypal object system and functional composi

Agreed, JS is more verbose than Ruby and Python and vanilla JS is a strange language for newcomers what with its prototypal object system and functional composition. It doesn't help that a lot of intro materials will try to shoehorn it into the traditional OO mold which it doesn't really fit well in. Something opinionated like Ruby (which strives to be expressive and terse) or Python (which is very standardised) is a better starting point for new developers.