My free course for learning Imba
Today I launched an Imba course for Scrimba.com. Imba is an amazing language for building web applications, that deserves more attention. Watch my announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSIsvZJhow Take the course (it's free): https://www.scrimba.com/learn/imba Some context: I fell in love with the Imba programming language a couple years ago and quit my job to spend all my time building projects with Imba. The first one being TaskTXT (https://www.tasktxt.com), a plaintext notepad with built-in timers. It's full of UI details that…
My free course for learning Imba launched on May 24, 2022 with 63 votes, #677 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
In plain words
A free course teaches Imba, a programming language designed for building web applications. Available on Scrimba, the course introduces developers to Imba's Python-like syntax, which compiles to JavaScript. Created by a developer who left their job to focus on Imba projects, the course targets web developers interested in learning an alternative to JavaScript frameworks like React.
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From the sources
Imba is a compile-to-JavaScript programming language that lets you build blazingly fast web apps. It powers both the frontend and backend of the Scrimba.com pla
In the maker’s words, at launch
Today I launched an Imba course for Scrimba.com. Imba is an amazing language for building web applications, that deserves more attention. Watch my announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSIsvZJhow Take the course (it's free): https://www.scrimba.com/learn/imba Some…
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