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In the variants view for a pattern, each variant should be a link that opens the associated sketch... maybe also include a button to open it in a different tab, or make opening it in a different tab the default behavior.

I was able to register an account on the main page, however, registering from the playground was unsuccessful, and sometimes logging from the playground takes a couple of tries.

I'm not sure if this is how you conceptualize variants, but it seems like maybe they're forks of patterns? What about being able to see all the various iterations of a pattern created by a single author? It would be awesome to be able to explicitly fork a pattern and also to just save new iterations. Perhaps you have to fork before you can edit another user's pattern? This is kinda what Glitch does if I remember correctly.

Basically, I think the variants view is cool (although I'm a bit unclear what qualifies as a variant... is it like a fork?) and would like to see it extended to cover minor revisions / changes to a pattern.

If you are in Input view or Live code mode and hit Shift+Enter without having parsed the grammar for the currently loaded file, parsing should just happen in the background automatically. If there's a parse error, you could pop open a modal dialog that prints the error and asks if the user wants to edit the grammar.

Currently you can only see the variants / inheritance of a pattern if you use the link present on the Barbara homepage... this should also be available when editing, probably under "File".

If issue #6 is resolved, then I don't think you need to display shortcuts for parsing in the Input view (also, is there a better name than "Input" for this view?), and exporting seems like a rare enough occurrence that users could just use the File menu to do it. That would just leave a brief note that Shift+Enter === run, a single command that won't confuse anybody.

seems like if you unpin the cloth simulation and then re-pin it the re-pinned version only gets attached in one location, causing it to fall awkwardly.