snap! does seem like my next go to. It may be easier to learn this since it's like scratch. But the windows antivirus says that the snap! files can be harmful. I can't tell if this is legit or this is false and actually safe to download. Anyone can help with this I don't know if this is a good fit in the forum but I think so.

Scratch and snap are almost the same, you should really move on to a text based language, not snap.

Just make sure you downloaded the right thing.

I’ve had Windows tell me the Scratch download is harmful. Just as long as you download it from an official source, you’re ok.

applejuiceproduc wrote:

Scratch and snap are almost the same, you should really move on to a text based language, not snap.

Just make sure you downloaded the right thing.

I'm not really moving on to it I just want to have another block based coding app to use.

GIitchInTheMatrix wrote:

I’ve had Windows tell me the Scratch download is harmful. Just as long as you download it from an official source, you’re ok.

So if I download it from the actual snap it would be fine. Right?

Crispydogs101 wrote:

GIitchInTheMatrix wrote:

I’ve had Windows tell me the Scratch download is harmful. Just as long as you download it from an official source, you’re ok.

So if I download it from the actual snap it would be fine. Right?

Right.

Crispydogs101 wrote:

Microsoft Edge thinks too many things are viruses. This specific XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is fine, it won't give you a virus, especially if you only open it in Snap.

Idk how in the world an XML file can be a virus.. So yes, it's totally safe

lolecksdeehaha wrote:

Crispydogs101 wrote:

Microsoft Edge thinks too many things are viruses. This specific XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is fine, it won't give you a virus, especially if you only open it in Snap.

Alright thanks for the answer.

Liavka, lolecksdeehaha, GIitchInTheMatrix, and applejuiceproduc, you guys deserve a raise thank you so much!

I think Edge marks it as unsafe because Windows might use XML files for some specific internal reason. It's kind of like how .js files are labelled as JScript* files by default

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript

Yeah but isn't XML data-only? The only reason it could be unsafe is if your parser has a bug, but then everything is technically unsafe