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Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by gavinray » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 4:48 PM UTC

I have nothing but good things to say about this group of people.

My personal interactions were mostly with Sindre Aarsaether, several years ago. Absolutely brilliant and genuinely caring human being.

I have recommended Scrimba to everyone who's asked me how to learn to code since the first time I tried it.

It will blow your mind the first time you see it, there's no possible better medium for learning and explaining software IMO.

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Edit: Side note, check out Sindre's work on DOM reconciliation, schedulers, and general performance. The way that Imba was written is incredibly unique for a DOM framework and the render capabilities + performance are absurd. An order of magnitude faster than React/Vue etc.

Also, I seem to recall something about the Scrimba team helping Ives from Codesandbox out with some JSX-parsing black magick for performance.

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by cloogshicer » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 4:49 PM UTC

Extremely cool! As someone who makes their living by teaching people how to code, this looks like something I'd love to use. Please consider open sourcing or making the pricing affordable even for smaller institutions/individuals.

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by pier25 » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 4:52 PM UTC

somebee wrote: post #6

mrborgen wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot! A new version of Imba is about to be launched soon btw, which features a much better developer experience :)

The veeery wip docs can be found at https://v2.imba.io :)

I see there's an hydration example!

(which I think wasn't available in v1)

Will Imba v2 support partial hydration?

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by mrborgen » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

cloogshicer wrote: post #12

Extremely cool! As someone who makes their living by teaching people how to code, this looks like something I'd love to use. Please consider open sourcing or making the pricing affordable even for smaller institutions/individuals.

Actually, anyone who wants can create Scrimba screencasts, group them in a playlist and share them with e.g. their class or community.

If you need any help to get started, just ping me at per@scrimba.com :)

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 4:54 PM UTC

somebee wrote: post #6

mrborgen wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot! A new version of Imba is about to be launched soon btw, which features a much better developer experience :)

The veeery wip docs can be found at https://v2.imba.io :)

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Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by somebee » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

pier25 wrote: post #13

somebee wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The veeery wip docs can be found at https://v2.imba.io :)

I see there's an hydration example! (which I think wasn't available in v1) Will Imba v2 support partial hydration?

Yep - the scrimba site is using partial hydration heavily. Hope to get imba 2.0 final out in a few months :)

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by turtlebits » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 5:13 PM UTC

pier25 wrote: post #10

Been following Scrimba and Imba for a couple of years. Super impressive work. Imba is kinda of a mix between Svelte and Mithril with a Ruby kind of language. The way you model state without reactivity is brilliant. It makes everything so much simpler.

I wanted to like Imba, but could not find simple hash based routing for static sites (ie, no server side magic). Wonder if that is still the case.

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by pier25 » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 5:16 PM UTC

somebee wrote: post #16

pier25 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see there's an hydration example! (which I think wasn't available in v1) Will Imba v2 support partial hydration?

Yep - the scrimba site is using partial hydration heavily. Hope to get imba 2.0 final out in a few months :)

Awesome! Thanks for your work!

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by pier25 » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

turtlebits wrote: post #17

pier25 wrote: post #10

Been following Scrimba and Imba for a couple of years. Super impressive work. Imba is kinda of a mix between Svelte and Mithril with a Ruby kind of language. The way you model state without reactivity is brilliant. It makes everything so much simpler.

I wanted to like Imba, but could not find simple hash based routing for static sites (ie, no server side magic). Wonder if that is still the case.

By "server side magic" you mean routing requests to index.html?

AFAIK that's a very simple config in all static hosts.

Re: Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code

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Post by bookercodes » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 5:26 PM UTC

I am such a big fan of Scrimba and everything you’re doing, Per! As someone who learned to code by watching YouTube videos, I immediately saw the value. More than that, I saw the FreeCodeCamp community rush to sign up, engage, and learn from all your new courses. This was only a sign of what was to come. Watching the Scrimba platform, instructor base, and lesson database evolve this year has been awesome, and I see no reason why you’d slow down now. Acquisition offers from the likes of Pluralsight are coming!