Yeah, xmonad

Pff, easy. Monad is a programming pattern for creating functions that return wrapper types with additional computations. Or, in layman’s terms, “When no monad, thing happen. When monad, thing happen, BUT ALSO another thing happen.”

This is very true; if it’s not fun, why bother. Granted, fun is subjective, but the point stands, I think

If the kid wants to make games, I would suggest fantasy consoles, aka things like PICO-8, TIC-80, etc. Dunno how easy it would be to be at this stage, though