I don't know any Scratch users personally. Anyway, that's irrelevant. IMHO the real reason Scratch teaches its users the "hacker mindset", is the way it forces

I don't know any Scratch users personally. Anyway, that's irrelevant. IMHO the real reason Scratch teaches its users the "hacker mindset", is the way it forces you to create complex things with a relatively simple and limited toolset. In a similar way to how C64 demo coders push the hardware to its limits to achieve interesting effects. To give an example, scratch has no 3d rendering capabilities, and the only 2d rendering techniques are using bitmap/svg "sprites", and the "pen", which lets you draw arbitrary lines between points. Despite these limitations, many more advanced users have created 3d polygon rendering engines.