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by casey2 43 days ago
Children in China seem to have no trouble learning programming languages with type systems based on System-F. Swift is heavily pushed[1], for children 8+, but of course 6,7-year-olds also learn it.

But maybe if we keep lying and making things "easy" for kids in the west they can make a comeback.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/swift-playground/