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In other words, Scratch can interface with C code.


Looking the repos to refute your snark, but you appear to be correct. The example given seems to be the thinnest of wrappers around the kernel C API and translates directly into the equivalent C for compilation. Does not seem like native scratch code in the kernel a la Rust.


I was looking at the repos too, not only at the linux module, but the whole "OS". Hoping for some cool scratch stuff.....but....it's just minimal wrappers.

As an aside, I think scratch is great, it's definitely not just for kids, I think it's great for anyone learning programming


A colleague of mine completed the first half of advent of code just using Scratch. She pushed it to it's absolute limits.


More like "Scratch can generate some C code"


So, time to start using scratch in a professional context. I know some BA's who'll have a lot of fun.


I'd say visual programming languages were first created to be used in a professional context. (Think BPEL and even earlier incarnations.)


The design workshop with a Surface on the wall is going to be tons of lego-colored fun !


"finally spaghetti code that look like spaghetti"


The blog says C++ though. Forget everything about kids and jigsaw UI, ++ in the kernel, this ist huge! ;)


There is also a C codegen available, still WIP though.




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