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Comment by smlacy

11 hours ago

I guess universities suffer from NIH-syndrome just as much as big tech does.

Not true in this case; the original intent for BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks) was as an extension to Scratch. When the Scratch team decided not to merge it, the BYOB folks decided to build it into Snap! instead of abandoning the perfectly-functional code they'd written.