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You can’t use Scratch on your iPhone, and the built-in basic programming was far more “native” than any similar smartphone equivalent we have today. My TI-89 ca
by Robotbeat 6y ago
You can’t use Scratch on your iPhone, and the built-in basic programming was far more “native” than any similar smartphone equivalent we have today. My TI-89 calculator remains way more programmable than my smartphone.
I’m not sure why it has become so common on HackerNews to defend this trend and/or pretend it’s not a trend.
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- Lio 6y agoIsn’t that the wrong comparison though? If you want to run scratch just use something other than an iPhone. When I was a kid we had 8bit micros. They were programmable but they were also eye wateringly expensive. So it was a struggle to own anything you could program at all. Also they all came with closed source, proprietary OSs. I used to spend a fair amount of time just starring at adverts for things I couldn’t afford and that would be obsolete before I could. Now you can get a whole computer given away free on the front cover of a magazine and it will do a pretty good job of running scratch for you.
- pjmlp 6y agoThen just install Pythonista.