[matheweis]

In my opinion they tried to hard to make it easy.

The scratch-like interface is a nice idea but limited and probably expensive for LEGO to create and maintain.

They should have gone the Arduino direction and made it so that you could run Python or C++ directly on the bricks.

Kids are smarter than they get credit for, it’d work great!

[hoherd]

FWIW you can run Linux on the EV3 and access the sensors and motors using a variety of programming languages.

https://www.ev3dev.org/