> I hope that by making programming more approachable and fun, we'll appeal to the next generation of programmers and to help redefine how Computer Science is taught.
I'll be cynical here: can this be done if the language ends up being restricted to apple devices?
To me, this is going to be the only thing that matters : dill this language be used for non-apple platform coding. I've been looking for a language just like that for a very long time on the server side for example.
>I'll be cynical here: can this be done if the language ends up being restricted to apple devices?
Sure it can. Students and school-children have been taught (and inspired) with proprietary systems and languages for ages.
Sure, it might not get to Windows or Linux users, but it still can reach tens of millions of kids and even universities (e.g Stanford already offers a well known iOS course with Objective-C).
I'll be cynical here: can this be done if the language ends up being restricted to apple devices?