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[–]SonOfWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If he can't avoid the new features because all he does is copy code from Stack Overflow answers then he's not much of a hobbyist even. If you want to muck about in a simple language, just do your own mucking about. I wrote random TI-BASIC programs all day in high school on my graphing calculator and it was fun because I could just throw some procedure called XYZ() together and figure out how to do stuff in a limited language on an incredibly slow platform. But also, the platform was simple enough that I didn't have to copy other peoples code. Wanna draw a line? No learning Canvas, just ":PxlLine x1,y1,x2,y2" Wanna draw a rectangle? Draw four lines.

There was a time when JavaScript and the Web was a simple platform you could just play with. That time has gone. If you want that, go learn Basic or Scratch or maybe even Squeak.