[nox100]

I'd say Scratch is the #1 way kids to day are introduced to programming in 2023

For parents that have some 8bit experience, Pico-8 (LUA) is also relatively popular. It's basically like running an Apple 2, Atari 800, Commodore 64 as if it booted into LUA instead of Basic. You can trivially draw things, and peak and poke bytes into "Screen memory" if you want to feel like you're "touching the hardware"

JavaScript is also available everywhere a kid might be and it's easy to draw stuff with literally millions of examples all over the net. Processing.JS is also a thing https://thecodingtrain.com/

[pmontra]

How easy is it to move from Scratch to a traditional text oriented programming language, let's say Python?

[nox100]

that would be impossible for me to answer since I already know python. Scratch is programming just no possibility of syntax errors