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This is all true. But the barrier to go from consuming to creating is a lot higher now. Making silly little programs in BASIC or Perl is a lot tougher on an ip

This is all true. But the barrier to go from consuming to creating is a lot higher now. Making silly little programs in BASIC or Perl is a lot tougher on an iphone, and that's what sparked the interest for a lot of people (though maybe I'm wrong and it's getting easier?)

asark 8y ago
For the specific case of creating software, then? I'd say the Swift Playground is (much) easier to get started with and also more compelling than hacking around with Perl on (at first) Win98 was.