MAmavsman·Sep 24, 2020
Scrimba is awesome. I was really intrigued by it for a while.
For me, I reached a point where I started to feel the limitations of the code editor provided. It became apparent that I was stuck in a learning tool, not a full text editor or IDE. There were just enough of these things that made it unappealing to me. I have been writing software for several years so I do have certain tools that I have become accustomed to using over time. Perhaps for people that don't have affinities for certain debugging tools or code editors this will be less of an issue but it would still be great to have some sort of seamless transition from tutorial to a real project, without just having to copy/paste code.
One other thought I had about it is that to me the usage of Imba to build it was a turn off. I can't remember if there was a specific reason for this
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or not. It might have been because I was considering what it would be like to contribute to Scrimba and when I found out that JS knowledge wouldn't come in handy I was kind of let down. I can't remember for sure though to be honest.
Last thought here, I found and started to contribute to a VS Code extension that I felt achieved a similar goal to this, called Codio (https://github.com/wix-incubator/codio). Ultimately there was some bug that prevented me from even recording any audio with it, basically making it useless, but I'd love to see something like these things take off.