p5.js

o p5 and the process of doing so begins to teach people the basics of JS" I dont really see how it would help teaching the basics of js, when the 'framework' itself introduces stuff like global functions, constants and so, which are considered evil in js. On top of that i think that if you try to teach someone js by porting code from java, you have to teach the fact that js itself is total different beast. Just like u said, no classes in a traditional sense, where have all the types gone?... That fact that js is so perfect for 'creative coding' is because of its dynamicness, the same reason why bindings for scripting languages are so popular in lower languages, you can just express an idea much faster and see changes immediatly. Yes a good framework can help with that, but I think that when learning js as a first language you have to be aware of its advantages right from the beginning, and not by translating it from another language. I just love paper.js way of dealing with javascripts dynamicness, paperscript introduces some neat additions to the language like operators http://scratchdisk.com/posts/operator-overloading I could totally imagine p5.js going the same way, accepting that the environment changed, not trying to port one opinion from another language to js, but instead think about the way javascript and its advantages can be used to create a new tool.