microsoft/TouchDevelop
TouchDevelop is a touch-friendly app creation environment for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux. Our mobile-friendly editor makes coding fun, even on your phone or tablet! observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4234
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2813
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1360 stars · 188 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
TouchDevelop is a touch-friendly, mobile-first app creation environment from Microsoft Research, including a browser-based editor, compiler, and runtime written in TypeScript. It lets users write and run scripts on phones and tablets, and was used for Hour of Code tutorials and the BBC micro:bit.
Use cases
- teach kids to code on a tablet
- write apps from a phone with touch input
- run hour of code tutorials in the browser
- explore a touch-based programming editor
- build simple scripts without a keyboard
When to choose
- you need a touch-first coding environment for tablets or phones
- you are teaching beginners or running Hour of Code activities
- you want to study the source of a browser-based editor and compiler
When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained tool - the last release was 2018 and the project is discontinued
- you need production mobile app development with modern tooling
- you rely on the cloud backend, which lives in a separate legacy repo
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
editor compiler interpreter programming-language gui web-framework education programming-languages web-development mobile-development developer-tools cross-platform browser windows touch-friendly mobile-first visual-programming microsoft-research hour-of-code beginner-coding tablet web-server nodejs mobile android ios macos linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/microsoft/TouchDevelop · fetched 2026-08-28 · 22760a99e00c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| microsoft/TouchDevelop | main | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="microsoft/TouchDevelop")
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