My first foray into programming was reading the GW BASIC manual and then asking my father whether he could get me GW BASIC; I got QBasic instead, which nicely i

My first foray into programming was reading the GW BASIC manual and then asking my father whether he could get me GW BASIC; I got QBasic instead, which nicely integrated all the text from that tome in the IDE. Right now I wonder what children will start with and how it would compare to my journey. Personally I feel, while JS in a browser is so much more capable, it's all but beginner-friendly and its main benefit to beginners is just ubiquity.