This thread is for anyone to ask questions about ScratchWriter.

ScratchWriter is a programming language that compiles to Scratch 3 projects. You can find documentation along with getting started & troubleshooting guides on github.

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if [you want help with an error] then
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is there an available web editor?

mc20000 wrote:

is there an available web editor?

There is no web editor, you have to install it locally. Once you've done that you can tell it to watch your file for changes and automatically update a local HTML file with a preview of the project. I think an online editor would be great for trying it out but it's very limiting once you actually start working on a project.

I love your ScratchWriter, but I'm not clear what is the advantage/purpose of a compiler from a Javascript-like language (so, not pure Javascript) to Scratch. So, I would really like to have some more infos from you! Thanks in advance

I noticed your documentation was AI generated, maybe you should clean it up a bit (at least remove the emojis because that's a big indicator of ai content)

(this is just a suggestion, you don't have to do it)

s_federici wrote:

I love your ScratchWriter, but I'm not clear what is the advantage/purpose of a compiler from a Javascript-like language (so, not pure Javascript) to Scratch. So, I would really like to have some more infos from you! Thanks in advance

The biggest advantage for me personally is that its much more manageable. A project I'm working on has around 15000 blocks when compiled which makes the editor almost completely unusable but is pretty easy to work with as text. Other advantages include modularity (write code once and use it in many projects easily) and adding features to scratch that aren't normally possible like passing lists into functions or returning values. It can also be a good bridge if you are looking to transition from scratch to something like javascript.

IronBill05 wrote:

I noticed your documentation was AI generated, maybe you should clean it up a bit (at least remove the emojis because that's a big indicator of ai content)

(this is just a suggestion, you don't have to do it)

None of it is AI generated, it was all written by me.

ajzat25 wrote:

IronBill05 wrote:

I noticed your documentation was AI generated, maybe you should clean it up a bit (at least remove the emojis because that's a big indicator of ai content)

(this is just a suggestion, you don't have to do it)

None of it is AI generated, it was all written by me.

Okay nevermind lol