Scrap is a new block based programming language with the aim towards advanced users.
It is written in pure C and mostly inspired by other block based languages such as Scratch and its forks such as Turbowarp.
This is free and open source software.
Enhancements over Scratch:
- (LLVM only) Faster runtime. The speed is achieved using compilation through LLVM.
- The addition of separate else if, else blocks (C-end blocks as i call them), which eliminates a lot of nested checks with if-else blocks (i.e. more flexible variant of if-else block in Snap!)
- Variables can have a lifetime, which avoids variable name conflicts and allows to make temporary variables.
- Custom blocks can return values and can be used as an argument for other block.
- Various string manipulation blocks and bitwise operator blocks.
- Data type conversion functions.
- More strict checks for [[] = []] and [[] != []] blocks. Now they are case sensitive and will check data type for equality.
- Lists are now a data type instead of a different type of variable, this allows nesting lists inside a list.
- The code runs in a separate thread. This solves some performance issues compared to Scratch.
- Modularized interface. Most of the interface can be rearranged or moved to another tab.
- (LLVM only) Standalone builds. Scrap projects can be built and run as native executables without significant runtime overhead.
Website: github.com/Grisshink/scrap
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Developer: Grisshink
License: zlib License
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