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Add to SafariWhen comparing TouchDevelop vs Pyret, the Slant community recommends Pyret for most people. In the question“What is the best programming language to learn first?” Pyret is ranked 50th while TouchDevelop is ranked 54th. The most important reason people chose Pyret is:
You can use the development environment without installation in your browser and share your programs via the Google Drive integration.
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Pros
Pro Advanced editor
- Browser based that is semi-structured as well as touchscreen friendly with a configurable presentation.
Pro Powerful APIs
APIs exist for persistent and shared data as well as for game engines and accelerometer, geolocation etc.
Pro Online IDE
You can use the development environment without installation in your browser and share your programs via the Google Drive integration.
Pro 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.
Cons
Con No collection literals
Collections can be initialized only verbosely.
Con No union types
There are no ADTs, not even enums.
Con No advanced expressions
There is no conditional expression or pattern matching.
Con Missing IDE features
For example: content assist, go to declaration, etc.
