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just now thought about something

scratch, the 'language' for teachings kids the basics of #programming, has better first class support for async work than a bunch actual programming languages

a screenshot of some scratch blocks, and comments explaining how they work there are two 'when green flag clicked' blocks, with the comment "multiple entry points, these will run in parallel when the game starts" each start 'thread' has a forever loop, one with a "render loop" custom block and another with a "logic loop" custom block followed by a 'wait 1 seconds' block, with the comment "only blocks this loop!" there is a 'broadcast message1' block and a 'when I receive message1' block, with the comment "call a piece of code without blocking the caller" and a 'broadcast message1 and wait' block with the comment "await" there's also a "wait until" block with the comment "blocks until the condition is met"
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