But I don't think we should be raising the barrier to entry and making it more difficult for a young hacker to get started. Like the above commenter I started h

But I don't think we should be raising the barrier to entry and making it more difficult for a young hacker to get started. Like the above commenter I started hacking around with HTML and CSS when I was around 12 and it led me into linux/python/php/web frameworks. There's something beautiful about being able to teach someone how to write a basic HTML document in 20 minutes. My mother can easily understand what HTML is doing, I doubt she'd understand a compiler.