[squeak-dev] Has anyone made a Blockly to squeak generator?

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Wed May 4 22:27:22 UTC 2022



> On 2022-05-04, at 12:31 PM, Tom Beckmann <tomjonabc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Big challenge with Blockly/Scratch for a general-purpose programming BBE is expression-centricity. You'll likely know that Scratch and Blockly typically distinguish between Statement and Value blocks, as such some hacks are required to make a language such as Smalltalk, where everything is an expression, work well.

I hadn't thought of it that way. Interesting.

> 
> Of course, having a domain-specific Blockly editor that simply outputs Smalltalk code should not be a challenge to create, but I'm not aware of such a project myself.

Ah well, another job to add to the list :-)


tim
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