@Moon @lain Better in what sense? One can do more with Javascript, but I am not sure that people who learn Javascript first end up better programmers than people who learn BASIC first. Javascript programmers all seem to be "copy and modify an existing example" programmers, the kind who are well simulated by ChatGPT. Programming in BASIC isn't like that; every program has to be really new.
But of course by BASIC I mean real BASIC, with line numbers.