At least Javascript can JIT on a Mac. Flash still doesn't do that AFAIK. I've got to check out this Snap thing. BYOB is cool.

On Mar 21, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

> On 2013-03-21, at 18:27, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 21-03-2013, at 10:16 AM, Brad Fuller <brad at bradfuller.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/21/2013 10:12 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
>>>> Hi Brad, got it. Your IT dep't needs fired;)
>>>> 
>>>> You can totally use Lively Kernel, but you may have to deal with some rough edges. 
>>>> 
>>>> Another possible option -- I remember John Maloney mentioning on a podcast that they were examining reimplementing Scratch using web technologies -- but I don't follow Scratch as closely as the other stuff, so I don't know about the status of that effort.
>>> 
>>> Would that be Snap?
>>> http://snap.berkeley.edu/
>> 
>> No, Flash (hurk, blech). Scratch 2.0 is a Flash script.
> 
> True, but Snap is pretty much the same as Scratch 1.0 (plus the BYOB extensions), done in pure JavaScript.
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> - Bert -
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