Should (How should) Snap! be more popular, etc

[bluebaritone21]

@anon45095554

what i personally like about snap or scratch is how straightforward they are. you see, when you are a newbie, you have to familiar yourself with some git stuff, compiling stuff, console and etc. ngl that looks confusing and boring for a newbie. just as it is for me. I don't know any programming language other than Snap!.

I didn't learn about git until years after I started programming.
(I started programming with FORTRAN '77, though...)

If you don't want to compile things you could start with interpreted/scripting languages, with GUI libs and a visual IDE.

@anon45095554

but you guys can get popular without that.

The point isn't to get popular. The point is to make a cool PL.

@slate_technologies

We (and by we I mean the Snap*!* Developers like bh) don't want Snap*!* to become a website only used for playing games (those of which our Snap*!* users have made) and socializing.

I know that some kids at my little brothers' school don't even know you can write code on Scratch. They think it's just a gaming platform the school district forgot to block.

I'd hate for Snap! to go the same way.

@bh

Actually I love when kids come to Snap*!* on their own initiative. They generally write more interesting projects, ask better questions, and are the superstars of our community.

I came here because I wanted to try out first-class procedures, but I didn't want to learn (lots of (infuriating (silly)) parentheses)

@mr_owlssssnap2

i am legally obligated to say dark flat design when?

You could use a userscript @ego-lay_atman-bay made.

@specialred

this proves that you don't know anything about scratch

This seems phrased a bit rudely, but IDK.