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Visual block syntax for programming languages
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Node server for routing to different systems #1306

Open dethe opened 8 years ago

dethe commented 8 years ago

We'd like to support multiple languages again in Waterbear, but not directly in the browser. The current plan is to provide a Node server which can be detected at runtime and the server can provide interfaces to things like Arduino, Java robotics, Minecraft, etc.

This depends on #362 to be able to show blocks only when they are valid, and handle loading scripts with blocks that are unsupported.

CelticMinstrel commented 8 years ago

Waterbear doesn't seem to have any problem with loading improperly-formatted blocks (at least when they're outdated versions of existing blocks), which is actually kind of problematic in my opinion, but also suggests that accepting unsupported blocks shouldn't be difficult (if not already possible).

dethe commented 8 years ago

The point isn't to refuse to load the blocks, but to refuse to run them, and provide visual indicators for why.

CelticMinstrel commented 8 years ago

I see. It would be nice if that could also be applied to blocks whose structure has changed from one version to another but are loaded from a gist that used the older structure.

dethe commented 8 years ago

I agree, but I think that has more to do with #425 and #918.