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Very interesting! So the language looks similar to Scratch and Blockly, but targeted to mobile web. I would like to see a comparison overview.

Anyone have a link to a published paper? This is from Microsoft Research so I would expect there to be one, eventually, relating this to similar efforts.



This paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/moskal/pdf/bey... describes the basic idea behind integrating an IDE, GitHub-like collaboration, and an app store.

The main thing about the interface it's that it's touch-optimized and has this unique semi-structured editor, where the expressions (as opposed to statements) are edited token by token, and not as a tree. This was proven to work better on touch-devices.


This paper describes some aspects of the system: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/189242/pldi097-burckhardt...


They also support compiling their language to Arduino C++.




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