But it’s written in some oddball language called Squeak

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Squeak is just a programming environment for Smalltalk, the language in which object-oriented programming was invented.

If anything, it’s those languages that tried to bolt on object-oriented features to Algol that are the oddballs!

2d minecraft ftw

Advantages:

  • runs in a web browser
  • very easy to code with

Disadvantages:

  • does not compile to a binary
  • is capped at JS speeds
  • has limited resolution
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there’s a guy in the emudev server working on a gba emulator in scratch (and completed a Gameboy one, and it’s pretty accurate AND fast!)

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