I'm an uncle of 6 children, ages 7 and under. My guess is that if any of them have ever seen a VT100 terminal emulator or Windows console window, it was probabl

I'm an uncle of 6 children, ages 7 and under. My guess is that if any of them have ever seen a VT100 terminal emulator or Windows console window, it was probably only when watching me or my brother-in-law. So traditional line-oriented programs, with plain text input and output, will be alien to kids of this generation. I know Racket has an integrated GUI toolkit, but will this new generation be able to run it on their tablets? One benefit of the great variety in front-end JavaScript frameworks, often criticized as churn, is that we're more likely to arrive at an abstraction that will be approachable to beginners. I look forward to watching how this generation learns to program.