Which is valid, but frustrating to see it lead to actual adoption outside of pedagogy. That property is entirely orthogonal to, almost at odds with, what makes a good programming language for medium to large production quality applications.
If we used that logic elsewhere in life we’d all be playing the flute and cycling around on tricycles and balance bikes. But for some reason in tech it’s all about Hello World.
The story of the winner being scrapy market entrants that are lower-cost (...of learning, in the case of python) and good-enough-quality (...than OCaml, Lisps, Haskel, definitely not JS or Java) is not a new one. I don't subscribe to your analogies.
If we used that logic elsewhere in life we’d all be playing the flute and cycling around on tricycles and balance bikes. But for some reason in tech it’s all about Hello World.