My child is literally making a roblox game right now. I just showed him lua. He is 10. Roblox is a huge gateway into programming. He started on scratch, and now roblox. Next generation of programmers will have learned programming using roblox as kids. I'm impressed with their IDE.
Humblebrag alert: Yes, I was blown away by what my 12yo was doing with Lua
because of his Roblox obsession. As mindless and addictive as Roblox looks,
there's a very important silver lining here.
I love lua, but roblox ide and general way how it works have made an impression of gimmick only used to bait parents into "my kid is learning programming", when in fact the system is pretty dull and feels too artificial.
Sorry, I was on that other side of the game, which was cheating money out of me, pretending it's teaching my children something, while they and all their virtual friends were engaging in toxic gangs and "parties" built on parents money
