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Making it an excellent choice for a programming beginner --sarcasm

It’s really just a bad overused joke.

You’ve said that, not us =P

Also: CSS Also: Java applets Also: Flash

The internet has basically gone moldy overnight.

And in GJS? All other runtimes?

In, say, C, such basic stuff is right there, in the standard.

Javascript isn’t even standardized, some ECMAScript is, so I don’t even know what we’re talking about.

I think you’re misunderstanding what “everything” means (it was “everything needed for a hello world”) and trying to divert the discussion to whatever Web has devolved into, which is an abomination that’s definitely unsuited for learning the ropes of software development.

Let me suggest a simple exercise for you.

1. Print “Hello world!” to stdout in Javascript.
2. Show me the standard that guarantees that everything you’ve used exists and works as intended.

I’ll wait.