> Scratch is great, but the problem is: where do kids go after scratch? Often they are transitioned directly to professional-grade languages and developer tools, which has the effect of turning what was once fun to something scary and frustrating. Many kids stop their PL development right then and there, writing it off as something “not for me”.

I work at a company that runs coding classes for children.

We created https://woofjs.com/ explicitly for the purpose of transitioning students from Scratch to a text based language. It's not perfect, but worth a look!