Scrap - New block based language, with advanced features, built from ground up in C

ttt999 · #1 Dec. 30, 2024 18:13:12

Scrap

After several months of development I'm proud to announce my new biggest project I've ever made! It's a new block based programming language named Scrap, but unlike other mods or forks of Scratch, Scrap has been implemented fully from scratch in pure C and offers a lot of features that don't exist in other mods or forks.

Scrap is currently in Beta stage, so some features are missing or just broken, so use with caution.

Download Scrap here -> https://github.com/Grisshink/scrap/releases

Source code can be found here (Any contributions are welcome) -> https://github.com/Grisshink/scrap

Notable advantages from scratch

- (LLVM only) Faster runtime. The speed is achieved using compilation through LLVM
- The addition of separate else if, else blocks (C-end blocks as i call them), which eliminates a lot of nested checks with if-else blocks (i.e. more flexible variant of if-else block in Snap!)
- Variables can have a lifetime, which avoids variable name conflicts and allows to make temporary variables
- Custom blocks can return values and can be used as an argument for other block
- Various string manipulation blocks and bitwise operator blocks
- Data type conversion functions
- More strict checks for [ = ] and [ != ] blocks. Now they are case sensitive and will check data type for equality
- Lists are now a data type instead of a different type of variable, this allows nesting lists inside a list
- The code runs in a separate thread. This solves some performance issues compared to Scratch
- Modularized interface. Most of the interface can be rearranged or moved to another tab
- (LLVM only) Standalone builds. Scrap projects can be built and run as native executables without significant runtime overhead

This is a topic for Scrap related discussion in English. If you speak in Russian, then discuss here or here

Screenshots

Last edited by ttt999 (Dec. 27, 2025 18:25:33)

BigNate469 · #2 Dec. 31, 2024 01:45:11

Interesting…

aspizu · #3 Dec. 31, 2024 03:46:00

Would it be possible to host this on a website by compiling to WASM?

ttt999 · #4 Dec. 31, 2024 11:00:01

aspizu wrote:
Would it be possible to host this on a website by compiling to WASM?

I think it might be. If raylib can be somewhat easily compiled to wasm through emscripten then it should be also trivial to compile Scrap this way. It would be cool to see Scrap on a website, but i don't really want to do it as of right now

davidtheplatform · #5 Dec. 31, 2024 22:25:34

aspizu wrote:
Would it be possible to host this on a website by compiling to WASM?

Yes: https://davidtheplatform.github.io/scrap-web/build/scrap.html
Repository: https://github.com/davidtheplatform/scrap-web

Raylib already works under emscripten. One of the libraries scrap uses (tinyfd) doesn't work, but it's pretty simple so I just replaced it with the equivalent browser dialogs.

ttt999 · #6 Dec. 31, 2024 22:37:02

davidtheplatform wrote:

aspizu wrote:
Would it be possible to host this on a website by compiling to WASM?
Yes: https://davidtheplatform.github.io/scrap-web/build/scrap.html
Repository: https://github.com/davidtheplatform/scrap-web

Raylib already works under emscripten. One of the libraries scrap uses (tinyfd) doesn't work, but it's pretty simple so I just replaced it with the equivalent browser dialogs.

That's a pretty good port, but i think needs some polishing to do. The shaders are completely broken and the font is somewhat blurry. I would actually like to merge it into main, so you can build everything in one repo. Can you do that?

scratchcode1_2_3 · #7 Jan. 1, 2025 22:53:47

this gives me heavy scratch 0.x vibes, especially the loops and the shape of the blocks

Scratchtheguy1 · #8 Jan. 5, 2025 15:45:55

Windows tells me that the file may give me a virus before opening the file, is it safe? Also the bad thing that i've heard that so many Russian softwares have malware, so you may be untrusted

when I receive [ Answer]
stop [ my questions]

Last edited by Scratchtheguy1 (Jan. 5, 2025 15:48:27)

ttt999 · #9 Jan. 5, 2025 16:14:57

Scratchtheguy1 wrote:
Windows tells me that the file may give me a virus before opening the file, is it safe? Also the bad thing that i've heard that so many Russian softwares have malware, so you may be untrusted
when I receive [ Answer]
stop [ my questions]

Yea, it is safe to open. To actually make it safe on windows, the executable must be signed, which is very costly to do so. If you don't really trust this binary you can build it from sources yourself

codercoby123 · #10 Jan. 5, 2025 18:22:26

I need site !

when I receive [Site open]

point in direction ( scrap )

Cool!

Sir_Potter_lV · #11 Jan. 5, 2025 18:38:07

ttt999 wrote:

Scrap

After several months of development I'm proud to announce my new biggest project I've ever made! It's a new block based programming language named Scrap, but unlike other mods or forks of Scratch, Scrap has been implemented fully from scratch in pure C and offers a lot of features that don't exist in other mods or forks.

Scrap is currently in Beta stage, so some features are missing or just broken, so use with caution.

Prebuilt binaries can be found here -> https://github.com/Grisshink/scrap/releases
Source code can be found here (Any contributions are welcome) -> https://github.com/Grisshink/scrap

This is a topic for Scrap related discussion in English. If you speak in Russian, then discuss here or here

Screenshots

I'm confused. Is Scrap like a version of Scratch that has a few features that Scratch doesn't have? And where can I find it?

ttt999 · #12 Jan. 5, 2025 18:47:41

Sir_Potter_lV wrote:
I'm confused. Is Scrap like a version of Scratch that has a few features that Scratch doesn't have?

Scrap is actually a new thing made with completely different technologies, so it does a lot of things differently.

Sir_Potter_lV wrote:
And where can I find it?

As of right now you can download it through Github Releases here . I will make a dedicated site for scrap later, but now this is the only way to download it.

codercoby123 · #13 Jan. 5, 2025 19:48:49

Now i can dowlaod it and its cool!

go to x: (scrap) y: (scrap)

1d324 · #14 Jan. 5, 2025 22:23:37

how do i start scrap?

codercoby123 · #15 Jan. 6, 2025 00:56:07

go to ttt999's massage at the very top, then u will see a link to dowlawd it.

glide (0) secs to x: (ttt999) y: (at the verry top!)

say [there is stil bugs in the game tho ] for (inf) secs

marsmark · #16 Jan. 6, 2025 10:56:19

One support I think will be neat is allow Scratch projects to be compiled into Scrap and exported as SB3 files, sort of how Turbowarp does it.

ttt999 · #17 Jan. 6, 2025 11:03:42

marsmark wrote:
One support I think will be neat is allow Scratch projects to be compiled into Scrap and exported as SB3 files, sort of how Turbowarp does it.

The sb3 importing feature is planned, but due to differences in architecture, i won't do the sb3 exporting, so it will be a one way process

ttt999 · #18 Jan. 6, 2025 18:56:13

v0.2-beta released!

What's new:

Added various string manipulation blocks
Added shortcuts to run/stop project (they are bound to F5 and F6 buttons respectively)
Added codebase movement through scroll wheel/touchpad
Added another 3D example

Fixes:

Fixed save corruption when saving unused custom blocks
Fixed custom blocks breaking when deleting arguments
Fixed some compilation issues with gcc-9
Fixed AppImage paths issue again
Fixed block highlighting with custom blocks

Download new release here -> https://github.com/Grisshink/scrap/releases/tag/v0.2-beta

codercoby123 · #19 Jan. 6, 2025 21:29:38

Imagien if this was more popular then sratch!

codercoby123 · #20 Jan. 6, 2025 21:36:52

Oh, and one thing i would like u to fix, is when we presse the green flag a lot, its white and black and the game is basicly glitching.

(If u can)

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