[nephanth]

> it's more like saying something like "english is more readable than french to a spanish speaker"

On the contrary French is much more readable than English to a Spanish speaker. Because French is much more similar to Spanish than English is.

Same with your JS example, I would guess it is much more similar to what you are used to

[kubb]

Maybe „French is more readable than Korean” would be a better analogy. Sure, if you’re already familiar with the Latin alphabet, but Hangul is clearly a better writing system.