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by coldtea 3861 days ago
>To be honest they should teach JavaScript instead of Python in highschools. Websites ('web apps'..) are a big deal in, atleast, teenager's life, so they could atleast install Tampermonkey plugin and script some functionality for their favorite websites.

I've never ...monkeypatched websites, and I've been a professional web programmer for 17 years. Now, I could very well be an outlier, but I don't recall any of tens of tech colleagues or friends in over 4 countries really going into that.

I don't think that's a valid use case for teenagers to learn JS for. There many other reasons of course -- but monkey-patching "their favorite websites" would be very low in that list.