[CharlieDigital]

No comment on the proposal, but this:

    > JavaScript might finally be accessible to newcomers and fun once more!

I don't think JavaScript has become less accessible. One can still write Vanilla JS without bundlers and compilers. It's still the same JS as it always was. Small HTML+JS projects I wrote in the early 2000's still work today. I think the ecosystem today is even richer and better than it was "back in the day".

In the last few years, I've also worked with many folks that transitioned into dev from non-CS, non-engineering backgrounds with React and JS being their entry point (you may argue that React != JS).

But a realization I'm having recently is that one day in the not so distant future, we'll think of JS like we think of assembly: just a low level target that some higher level instruction compiles to. That higher level instruction is natural language and the compiler is LLMs.