No support. Siri is copyrighted, and Apple would take action.
Also, this is a programming website, for beginners to learn, and for experts to make cool projects, games and more. This isn't a social media, even though there is a lot of social features, or an operating system. Also, since technology isn't just there yet for computers to read our minds (that would probably not even be allowed), “Siri” would have to ask a lot of questions.

Also, you don't have to put:

Chikorita152A wrote:

Hello.

If you are wondering what I am doing here, I am a suggestor of Scratch and NOT an official Scratch employee:

Scratch doesn't have “employees”, as it is a organisation (is that the word?), like Mozilla, creator of the Firefox browser and many other great programs, and why would the Scratch Team have to suggest things to themselves?

(NO OFFENCE/OFFENSE)

myeducate wrote:

dude341 wrote:

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Scratch doesn't have “employees”, as it is a organisation (is that the word?), like Mozilla, creator of the Firefox browser and many other great programs, and why would the Scratch Team have to suggest things to themselves?
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Actually, they do. The Lifelong Kidergarten group at MIT hires the Scratch team.

Yes, but they don't call them employees, I'm pretty sure.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/188425785/

Click here to see the advantages of the idea… before it is too late and it's taken down. Please write comments….

I think the biggest problem here is that siri will have no idea what to do for some of this stuff. Stuff such as “create a variable named var and set it to true” and “add Cats to list animals” would work however stuff such as “Fix all bugs” and “create a platforming game” is near impossible to program. There are many different kinds of games. How would it know how to fix every bug ever. It has the potential to break things that work and not fix glitches. For create a platforming game what kind of platforming game would it make? Wouldn't it be more efficient to just remix a platforming engine then go from there. And if specifics were added such as make a “platformer RPG set in Gaos that has an in depth story” just want in the world would it even do for that?

No support
A: The point of Scratch is for us to learn how to code, not have a personal assistant do it for us.
B: Not everyone has Siri
C:This would be too complex you can't just say, “Siri, make a platformer” and then that magically happens, it is much more complex
D: What computers have a microphone?

dude341 wrote:

Siri is copyrighted, and Apple would take action.

Scratch Team could just ask Apple to implement Siri. But still…

If being able to have Siri “program my game” is possible, Scratch would be redundant since this technology would be already used by the big tech companies, making human programmers obsolete and thus the need to learn to code

While it sounds like a good idea to have a small helper, I believe the contrary.

First off, as many people have already said, it'll take away the purpose of Scratch. Even adding a simple coded “assistant” would cause more shortcuts in Scratch, therefore creating bad habits and/or decay knowledge of “how to”s and tricks.

Secondly; creating a personal assistant is going to take a lot, if not too much work from the Scratch developer team. It's going to take at least half the effort and programming of the already known Scratch 2.0. They need to program in (from what I'm getting) voice recognition, automatic functions, text/speech responses, and a few other features to make a basic assistant.

You have to remember that these things aren't made of magic.

And third, I believe it's going to be nothing but a waste of space. Personal assistants are usually there when the person needs assistance. Do you need help to drag a block or type an input in? With the already built in tips section, plus the forums section, any help concerning knowledge can be found there.

As for excessive work? Those would probably be handled by the shortcut tools already being suggested (may I remind you that a shortcut tool is different from a personal assistant for Scratch).

So basically, no support. Sorry mate.

Charles12310 wrote:

dude341 wrote:

Siri is copyrighted, and Apple would take action.

Scratch Team could just ask Apple to implement Siri. But still…

Apple probably wouldn't do that, since it would take ages to port Siri to Flash Player (Scratch 2) or HTML5 (Scratch 3)