Scratch vs Duality

Scratch was developed specifically for kids ages 8 and up as an exciting way to introduce them to technology. It's designed to be easy to learn, but still provides good depth in computational thinking.

Code is represented as visual building blocks that makes it easy to understand how a program is put together.

Scratch is designed to teach computational thinking rather than focus on specific syntax. It was designed specifically to be easy to learn for anyone over the age of 8.

The language is highly structured. Therefore, it gives you the essentials of how to think like a programmer and teaches you good programming practices from early on, so you could write clean, working and readable code in the future.

The full source code is available on GitHub, where the framework is actively developed. All of the editor, core and plugin code is written in C#.

Duality includes a powerful visual editing system that can be used for previewing, integrating, editing and testing game content.

Because both Core and Editor are completely plugin-based, Duality not only incorporates a clean and modular design, but is also very extensible - even if it wasn't Open Source. In fact, most of the standard editing capabilities comes in form of Editor plugins.

It can be configured to serialize all data in a text-based format, which has been structurally optimized for version control systems.

It has been used in a production environment without burning the place to the ground. Supposedly artist-proof editor workflow with an API for tailoring the system to fit your team.