AoK vs scratch-www

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AoK		scratch-www
	Project
1	Mentions	804
3	Stars	1,561
-	Growth	0.7%
8.6	Activity	9.9
4 months ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
	Language	JavaScript
-	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

AoK

Posts with mentions or reviews of AoK. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-01.

-🎄- 2022 Day 2 Solutions -🎄-
239 projects | /r/adventofcode | 1 Dec 2022

I feel pretty good about my ngn/k solution: https://github.com/gitonthescene/AoK/blob/main/2022/day2.k

scratch-www

Posts with mentions or reviews of scratch-www. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-01.

Ask HN: Modern Day Equivalent to HyperCard?
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 May 2024

LiveCode is about the closest literal logical successor to HyperCard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode?wprov=sfti1
That said, I think Scratch is a better learning environment these days and you can develop workable apps in the style of HyperCard. There are plenty of tutorials, documentation, and examples to work from.
https://scratch.mit.edu
Scratch is the largest free coding community for kids
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2024
Screen-free coding for children: the xylophone maze
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024

and https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now.
I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I think when kids grok these things these apps become just types of glofiried education flavoured video games. There are a lot of things in kodable for instance that I feel are just basic web games with coding terms slapped on it.
https://scratch.mit.edu/ is more like 'programming' imo, even at the level of the objective -- having a blank canvas to create something. It seems a little advanced for my kids right now though.
Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024

+1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua.
Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music.
https://scratch.mit.edu/
Ask HN: Platform for kids to learn how to code
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023

Scratch.mit.edu is a highly-recommended place to start [1] https://scratch.mit.edu/
> Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization. [2]
1: https://scratch.mit.edu/
Eligiendo un computador para desarrollo
2 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2023

https://scratch.mit.edu/ (Scratch version 2)
i swear to god if i keep seeing projects abt these 4 franchises every single day i'm gonna break someone's kneecaps
1 project | /r/BattleForDreamIsland | 10 Dec 2023

Someone who uses scratch.mit.edu (like me)
How to learn coding without a degree
1 project | /r/CodingHelp | 7 Dec 2023

Now that I think of it, I did start game development on scratch before going right into java (because of minecraft).
Copii si programarea
1 project | /r/programare | 6 Dec 2023
Teen school project
1 project | /r/gamedev | 6 Dec 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AoK and scratch-www you can also consider the following projects:

Node RED - Low-code programming for event-driven applications

GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.

blockly - The web-based visual programming editor.

Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

processing - Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)

stencyl-engine - Create Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, and desktop games with no code with Stencyl. This is the source to Stencyl's Haxe-based engine.

twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

curriculum - The open curriculum for learning web development

PhysicsExamples2D - Examples of various Unity 2D Physics components and features.

advent-of-code-2021

Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]

RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine