goboscript

Scratch is how I first learned programming. I was building increasingly ambitious projects in it, and at some point the editor itself became the main thing I was fighting. Once a project got to around 10,000 blocks, it could get painfully laggy, and I ended up spending a lot of time engineering around Scratch's limits. That is what eventually led me to build goboscript: https://github.com/aspizu/goboscript I'm one of the programmers who owe their career to Scratch, this year, I joined https://ente.com as a software engineer. Scratch taught me how to code, and perhaps a bit of real-world engineering indirectly.

See also! Leopard[0] translates existing Scratch projects JavaScript with a a library for creating games with a really nice API for 'rendering sprites, collision detection, audio, and more' and on the other side, goboscript[1] is a text based programming language that compiles to Scratch projects. It lets users write Scratch projects with text syntax that you can write in an IDE and version control etc. maybe both of these could be interesting stepping stones? personally when I 'graduated' from Scratch as a kid I just dumped into writing HTML/CSS/JS websites, which is a very different environment entirely. It actually took a while before I realized where the overlap was with what I learned through Scratch. [0] https://leopardjs.com/ https://github.com/leopard-js/leopard [1] https://github.com/aspizu/goboscript

goboscript is a text-based programming language which compiles to Scratch. It allows you to write Scratch projects in text, and compile it into a .sb3 file - which can be opened in the Scratch editor, TurboWarp or be uploaded to the Scratch website. goboscript allows you to create advanced Scratch projects with ease, you can use any text editor, use a version control system such as git. You can refactor your code using search and replace. Text code can be copy pasted, which allows you to easily reuse code or share it with others. goboscript syntax is concise and easy to read. goboscript allows you to integrate external tooling and workflows, such as using a script to generate costumes for a text rendering engine. Or loading in images into lists. goboscript has a powerful macro system - similar to Rust's macro system. This allows you to wr