Sure - but it's also being touted as something special that's worth paying attention to for programmers. Like - when I first learned about Smalltalk, and looke

Sure - but it's also being touted as something special that's worth paying attention to for programmers. Like - when I first learned about Smalltalk, and looked at the syntax, I wanted to try it out right away! Playing with that realm of object oriented programming looks like fun! But jumping through hoops to make it work is not fun - the process of just setting things up and trying to pick through the whole alien interface completely evaporated my enthusiasm. It quickly became clear to me that you can't 'just sit down and write code' the way you can with basically any other modern language I've worked with. You have to do a bunch of other stuff first. And I don't want to do that. You can open a web browser, hit F12, and immediately start writing javascript and running it. You can use notepad to make an .htm file, drag it into the browser, and boom it's a web page. If you're on a device that makes task switching awkward, you can navigate straight to codepen.io, no sweat. You know what I mean? Immediacy is an essential quality, for me - obscurity, esotericism, inaccessibility and poor usability are all banes of my existence. It's like sure, I can do anything I put my mind to - I can spend the next hour, the next day, the next week, month, year, decade, learning to do this thing... but that's time I'll never get back, and that's time I could be spending more efficiently stepping into something else, equally exciting and different and new and interesting, with significantly less barrier to entry. If you care about your work, and your goal is to expose others to it, then you need to put the work into making it accessible. That's been my experience.