Interesting comment; it seems to imply that some people will learn Spider before JavaScript. Whenever I come across one of these compile-to-JS languages I take

Interesting comment; it seems to imply that some people will learn Spider before JavaScript. Whenever I come across one of these compile-to-JS languages I take it as "this makes you more productive, as long as you've learned JS first and understand the mapping". Spider does look like it would actually be a really cool first language to learn!