This may go completely unnoticed, but I'll talk to myself a bit in case someone ever reads this.
In my experience, people who want to learn how to program find setting up a development environment painful and tricky. Hence, learning tools like IDLE and Racket. We wanted to create something similar, but in the browser. Perl made this relatively simple, so we built a component to do this.
Separately, I hope to use this in future educational projects and I hope others will do the same. We can hopefully allow people to get their feet wet before embarking down the mundane and sometimes frustrating path to installing an interpreter, text editor, etc.
In my experience, people who want to learn how to program find setting up a development environment painful and tricky. Hence, learning tools like IDLE and Racket. We wanted to create something similar, but in the browser. Perl made this relatively simple, so we built a component to do this.
Separately, I hope to use this in future educational projects and I hope others will do the same. We can hopefully allow people to get their feet wet before embarking down the mundane and sometimes frustrating path to installing an interpreter, text editor, etc.