I am actually really interested to see if something like Deno can take over in programming education.[1] Deno's extremely simple import semantics and built-in

I am actually really interested to see if something like Deno can take over in programming education.[1] Deno's extremely simple import semantics and built-in tooling could make it a great environment for a learner. They won't have to be exposed to package management, they can just click a URL in their source code and see the exact source code they just imported. All the stuff that professional developers can do and might want to do for themselves (setting up testing frameworks, pinning transitive dependency versions) is kind of out of scope for educational use. Unless that education is specifically targeted at "how to do modern JS development within this specific ecosystem". The ease of bringing TypeScript into your Deno programs may make it easier to start "graduating" to static typing as part of the curriculum, without being like "okay, that was Python! Next up: Java!" [1]: Say what you want about JavaScript, I don't see that modern JS is significantly worse than Python for learning to program (having watched a couple of students go through Python courses). All languages have their warts.