Because people always say scratch is for babies or have you seen scratch junior that's even worse or I think scratches superior two other coding platforms

It’s easier, but very limited.
Unity is a game engine, Python is a language, like Scratch!
Unreal can be used to render super realistic scenes, and i believe Python. Is a lot faster than Scratch.
All coding languages have their own ups and downs, but Scratch has the major down of limitations.

Scratch is extremely slow. Like @GlitchInTheMatrix said, it is also very limited. However, Scratch is extremely accessible. People are even making FPS engines now.

no.

can you, say, fetch a high-res real-time satellite map of the Earth and project it onto a rotating sphere while allowing free camera movement and zoom? no. not without making compromises and jumping through hoops to bend scratch into something it isn’t. scratch has its merits as a teaching tool, but it is worse than most other programming languages in every way except ease of use.

Unless you are using Scratch for educational use, it is terrible for real-world use cases since:

- it is not portable to embedded systems or systems without html/js support
- uses JavaScript under the hood which is not blazingly fast and has its own issues
- it has no support for fetching resources directly over the network (without cloud variable servers) which cripples a lot of uses

I'm not saying it's a bad language, but it isn't designed for anything outside of teaching. I'm looking at you, the one guy should be learning OpenGL instead of trying to remake Unity in Scratch

What about ROBLOX studio?

scratching46 wrote:

What about ROBLOX studio?

no. Roblox studio is far more limiting than Unreal or something like that would be.

just to be clear, Scratch and Roblox aren’t bad. they’re fine, especially for easing you into programming. just don’t expect to be able to do everything you want to. if you want more power and control, there’s not really a substitute for text-based programming languages and industry-class game builders.

I know cuz soon I'm playing to also use ROBLOX studio

ajskateboarder wrote:

Unless you are using Scratch for educational use, it is terrible for real-world use cases since:

- it is not portable to embedded systems or systems without html/js support

Leopard.js and htmlifiers exist.

- uses JavaScript under the hood which is not blazingly fast and has its own issues

Chrome's V8 Engine actually makes it run blazingly fast, it's just that the process that Scratch uses to compile the blocks is slow.

- it has no support for fetching resources directly over the network (without cloud variable servers) which cripples a lot of uses

Use leopard and Node.js but only if you know what you are doing.

I'm not saying it's a bad language, but it isn't designed for anything outside of teaching. I'm looking at you, the one guy should be learning OpenGL instead of trying to remake Unity in Scratch

Yes, I agree to this. Scratch is very slow and limited. But I can't use anything else really except JS or some online compilers for different languages bc im on a school chromebook.

GIitchInTheMatrix wrote:

It’s easier, but very limited.
Unity is a game engine, Python is a language, like Scratch!
Unreal can be used to render super realistic scenes, and i believe Python. Is a lot faster than Scratch.
All coding languages have their own ups and downs, but Scratch has the major down of limitations.

BreadcatGames wrote:

Scratch is extremely slow. Like @GlitchInTheMatrix said, it is also very limited. However, Scratch is extremely accessible. People are even making FPS engines now.

scratching46 wrote:

What about ROBLOX studio?

No

ISTILLMAKESTUFF wrote:

ajskateboarder wrote:

Unless you are using Scratch for educational use, it is terrible for real-world use cases since:

- it is not portable to embedded systems or systems without html/js support

Leopard.js and htmlifiers exist.

Yes, but that isn't Scratch, and that wouldn't work on a device without a GUI like how `python` or `gcc` can be run in the terminal.