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Online IDE

You can use the development environment without installation in your browser and share your programs via the Google Drive integration.

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Designed for education

A primary goal of Pyret is to be an excellent choice for a first programming language. This heavily influences the development of the language. For example: if it's felt that some aspect of the language could be made better for the language's users, The development team won't hesitate about implementing breaking (non backwards compatible) changes into Pyret for the greater good of the language. This makes Pyret an impressively "wart free" programming language.

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Missing IDE features

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