Android App Inventor Saved: Finds a New Home at MIT

Seems fitting. LEGO Mindstorms hardware was based on work at MIT, then MIT made a programming environment for it which LEGO adopted, then the App Inventor was clearly inspired by that software, then MIT gets App Inventor :) Let's see what they do with it this time.

App Inventor was heavily based on the Scratch project which is also housed at MIT so it was only natural that they take it forward.

AppInventor is so cool; glad it has found a home.

was App Inventor ahead of it's time?

In my experiences using App Inventor I found it, like Scratch, useful for rapid prototyping of simple apps and games. The problem was that it doesn't produce efficient enough apps for complex games than run well on today's phones.