Kaboom – Replit

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This is such a wonderful initiative and could bring so many kids into programming! So many people start programming in order to make games and I could see this developing into the new standard for it & it being supported first class in replit makes it super simple to create and share your game. I got a chance to try out kaboom last weekend and while it's already great for games, I'd love for it to also have more support for visualizations, something I used to spend a <i>ton</i> of time on in high school in khanacademy's processing.js editor[1]. Kaboom's support for ES6 and WebGL, focus on gaming, and integration with replit would make it a much better tool than KA for this. Some things in particular I'd like to see from kaboom for viz - it's missing basic raw functions like drawEllipse, the docs were difficult to read (I wish it would say what params something takes instead of "[conf]"), and in the end I failed to port over my voronoi viz[2][3]. If they decide this would be a good focus for them, I'd suggest having one of the built-in kaboom examples on replit to be a visualization. [1] https://www.khanacademy.org/profile/raphaelrk/projects [2] https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/quick-voronoi/5465818696744960 [3] https://replit.com/@raphaelrk/CumbersomeAdmiredStrategies.

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Reminds me of the Land of Lisp video—in a good way. http://landoflisp.com/.

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