@firefly_lightning @silverwizard Racket is a variant of Scheme, designed by people who have put a lot of thought into programming and how to teach it, and does a good job of the space it's in. The downside is that its structure is (partly by historical accident) not very much like most programming languages that most people consider "serious".

And as annoying as web browsers are, CGI is still the easiest way to get a GUI, followed by "whatever your dev tooling thinks is native", with anything else way behind.