MCHPRS VS scratch-www

You can compile redstone using Rust though, see https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS and https://youtu.be/-BP7DhHTU-I

Someone made a Redstone JIT compiler.

I don't know if you know about MCHPRS. It's a multi-threaded self-hosted MC Server made specifically for redstone. It gives you more control over redstone.

https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS (redstone only)

It sure is! https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS

The relevant bit is https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS and Rust snippet starting from 0:25

Pretty cool.

The program itself was written in an existing intermediate language called URCL, which was then compiled to CHUNGUS2 assembly. CHUNGUS2 is the processor made with Minecraft's redstone mechanics. The processor was emulated for development, but the demo is running on MCHPRS, a Minecraft server that uses Wasmtime's Cranelift to JIT the redstone operations, which are represented as a weighted directed graph. Before MCHPRS optimizing redstone performance using compiler techniques was not thought to be possible. With MCHPRS the demo takes 9 hours to run, it would take decades without it.

https://github.com/sammyuri/minecraft

https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS

Yes, the 2,000,000x slowdown mentioned in the trailer is relative to vanilla. But because it would take a decade to record this footage at that speed, they're using this Minecraft server implementation optimized for redstone: https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS

It looks like these are the only existing items, which were enough to accomplish the goals of this project

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

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.

+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/

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/

https://scratch.mit.edu/ (Scratch version 2)

Someone who uses scratch.mit.edu (like me)

Now that I think of it, I did start game development on scratch before going right into java (because of minecraft).