[ggorlen]

As is often the case, the title is unfortunately overloaded. I initially read this as writing code in the Scratch programming language[1] that compiles to assembly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language)

[userbinator]

Given that we've seen things like C compilers written in Bash[1] and TLS libraries in Visual Basic[2], I think it's only a matter of time before someone with the right skills and motivation actually does it (or writes a compiler for $language in Scratch).

[1] https://github.com/otakuto/bashcc

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35882985

[hyperbolablabla]

Yes, capitalisation of scratch was incredibly misleading in this case. It's easily checkable but slightly annoying. Hard to avoid though!

[HumblyTossed]

Even thought the S in Scratch is uppered, I still read it correctly.

[ithkuil]

Ironically the word "overloaded" is overloaded too.

[__MatrixMan__]

Me also. The actual thing is probably pretty cool, but now that my hopes were up I'm finding it insufficiently whimsical.

[MiguelX413]

I also misunderstood it in that manner.