MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player as open source

Re:MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player... by davexunit on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @02:42PM (#7739858)

It's unfortunate that Scratch is built upon the Flash platform. Though Scratch has been released under the GPL, it requires nonfree software in order to run. Scratch looks interesting, but I cannot recommend its use until this problem is fixed.

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Re:MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player... by sdg1 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @02:58PM (#7739937)

We have a work-in-progress HTML5 version as well: https://github.com/LLK/scratch-html5

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Re:MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player... by davexunit on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @03:43PM (#7740216)

Well that is great news! Thanks for letting me know.

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Re:MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player... by mcherm on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @03:02PM (#7739962)

Really? That's very exciting!

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Re:MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player... by rch on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @04:40PM (#7740568)

Google's Blockly is similar and available under the Apache License:

"Blockly is a component that may be useful for a variety of projects, including educational tools. We want developers to be able to play with Blockly, give feedback, and think of novel uses for it. All the code is free and open source."

https://code.google.com/p/blockly/source/browse/trunk/COPYIN...

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Re:MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player... by nullz on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @07:48PM (#7741322)

I've worked on a project that used Blockly and found it to be great : )

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Re:MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player... by tarr11 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @04:55PM (#7740649)

I think it's more important for kids to learn to code, that it is to be consistent about using non-free software.

Scratch is free, committed to open source, and is frankly the best software out there for getting young kids excited about coding.

I'd highly recommend it, despite being encumbered by flash.

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Re:MIT's Scratch Team releases Scratch 2.0 editor and player... by rasur on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @03:11PM (#7740018)

The Scratch I knew from a while ago was built on Smalltalk, and in fact there's an updated version that runs on Pharo Smalltalk, called 'Phratch'.

I have not compared the two, but if you want a freer version, I would recommend looking at http://www.phratch.com/

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