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Hey all, I'm the creator of this screencast (and a co-founder of Scrimba). Happy to answer any questions people might have :)

bmease 9y ago
Scrimba is a really neat idea. Would you mind going over its architecture and your plan for future language support?
- mrborgen 9y ago
  Sure! The basic idea behind Scrimba is that we record events instead of pixels. So what you're seeing when you're watching a Scrimba screencast is simply a re-creation of what the creator did when creating the screencast (which is done in-browser). Even the interactions with the live preview are recorder, through a DOM-recorder we've built. This opens up for tons of possibilities, including enabling the viewer to interact with the code. We will add support for server side languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Node) in the future. However, it's not at the top of our list, as there are several core things we need to fix. Once we have a timeline for that, it'll surely be shared on our Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/scrimba_community/Lobby?utm_source=share-link&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share-link https://gitter.im/scrimba_community/Lobby?utm_source=share-l... Next up on our feature list is to make the creation process a lot easier, by enabling the creator to edit the recording after it's done. Will likely be launched next week :)
  - narak 9y ago
    This is a super cool idea really well executed. I wish this existed when I was learning to program.
geuis 9y ago
No code shows up on mobile.
- mrborgen 9y ago
  What kind of mobile/browser are you using?
derpsauce69 9y ago
Mixed Content: The page at 'https://scrimba.com/casts/cast-1980' https://scrimba.com/casts/cast-1980' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://i.imgur.com/k4L44Qg.png' http://i.imgur.com/k4L44Qg.png'. This content should also be served over HTTPS. switch your imgur to https to fix the SSL for your streamcast. looks really cool though!
- mrborgen 9y ago
  Oops, thanks for notifying me about that!

bmease 9y ago

Scrimba is a really neat idea. Would you mind going over its architecture and your plan for future language support?

mrborgen 9y ago
Sure! The basic idea behind Scrimba is that we record events instead of pixels. So what you're seeing when you're watching a Scrimba screencast is simply a re-creation of what the creator did when creating the screencast (which is done in-browser). Even the interactions with the live preview are recorder, through a DOM-recorder we've built. This opens up for tons of possibilities, including enabling the viewer to interact with the code. We will add support for server side languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Node) in the future. However, it's not at the top of our list, as there are several core things we need to fix. Once we have a timeline for that, it'll surely be shared on our Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/scrimba_community/Lobby?utm_source=share-link&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share-link https://gitter.im/scrimba_community/Lobby?utm_source=share-l... Next up on our feature list is to make the creation process a lot easier, by enabling the creator to edit the recording after it's done. Will likely be launched next week :)
- narak 9y ago
  This is a super cool idea really well executed. I wish this existed when I was learning to program.

geuis 9y ago

No code shows up on mobile.

mrborgen 9y ago
What kind of mobile/browser are you using?

derpsauce69 9y ago

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://scrimba.com/casts/cast-1980' https://scrimba.com/casts/cast-1980' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://i.imgur.com/k4L44Qg.png' http://i.imgur.com/k4L44Qg.png'. This content should also be served over HTTPS. switch your imgur to https to fix the SSL for your streamcast. looks really cool though!

mrborgen 9y ago
Oops, thanks for notifying me about that!