I wonder if a guided introduction to JavaScript, restricted to just the good parts and using some tools such as a linter to enforce that, would have made it mor

I wonder if a guided introduction to JavaScript, restricted to just the good parts and using some tools such as a linter to enforce that, would have made it more approachable to the author. Maybe use TypeScript in strict mode, along with a project template for a minimalist framework (e.g. Vue). I loved Python for years, going back to when I discovered it in the Red Hat Linux installer in 1999. But it seems to me that Python has been sliding into irrelevance for a while. Even now, 10 years after the introduction of the ihone App Store, I don't know of any mature way to develop a mobile app with a native UI in Python. The same goes for using Python in the browser. So for the things that most people actually want to do with code, Python is relegated to the server (assuming there is one), and they have to learn something else anyway. So, might as well start with the something else that will get you the farthest.