Super neat! Admittedly I haven't played around with it too much, but I recently attended a keynote by the love Felienne Hermans that was all about her Hedy (ht

Super neat! Admittedly I haven't played around with it too much, but I recently attended a keynote by the love Felienne Hermans that was all about her Hedy (https://www.hedycode.com/ https://www.hedycode.com/) "gradual" programming language. There are essentially progressive levels of the language that require more syntax rules (so in the lowest level `print hello, world!` just works™ and in the highest level, it's a syntactically valid subset of python, so you're expected to write `print("hello, world!")` -- and other constructs like functions and conditionals are introduced along the way). As a shameless self plug, I've spent the past few years working on Pathbird (https://pathbird.com/ https://pathbird.com/) which doesn't use visual programming (it uses Julia/Python/R) but is really designed to let instructors create progressive lessons (a lot of use has been in non-CS courses, so imagine a stats professor using inline R code to visualize the central limit theorem). Happy to chat about it (travis@pathbird.com) if anyone is curious or just wants to shoot the shit.