Ah I see - so your issue is with the proliferation of tiny libraries associated with NPM? That's not inherently an issue with Javascript. I agree that solving

Ah I see - so your issue is with the proliferation of tiny libraries associated with NPM? That's not inherently an issue with Javascript. I agree that solving every issue with a library is bad in the same way that solving every issue by copy-pasting from stack overflow is bad, but it's not inherent to the language. I primarily work in Javascript these days and I've never actually seen a project that relies on an excess of micro-libraries. A good teacher will teach students to understand programming logic, not to lean on excessive crutches.