Building the future with Blockly at the Raspberry Pi Foundation
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Today we're announcing that Blockly, Google's open source library for drag-and-drop programming, is moving to the stewardship of the Raspberry Pi Foundation on November 10, 2025.
Since its creation at Google in 2011, Blockly has grown from a passion project to a standard for visual programming. Educational platforms such as Scratch, MakeCode, and LEGO Education use Blockly to remove barriers to entry into the world of programming. Blockly's move to the Raspberry Pi Foundation reflects close alignment with its education-focused mission.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is one of the world's leading non-profits dedicated to advancing computing education. This move is designed to sustain Blockly's long-term stability and continued innovation as a foundational tool for block-based coding and computer science worldwide.
We are delighted that the Raspberry Pi Foundation will be the new home for Blockly, the world's leading open source library for visual programming. We are committed to maintaining Blockly as an open source project and look forward to working collaboratively with the amazing community of developers and educators to increase its reach and impact in the years to come.– Philip Colligan, Chief Executive at Raspberry Pi Foundation
Blockly's growth, evolution, and success rest on a foundation of support and investment in open source software from Google over many years. Google.org's support for Blockly's future at Raspberry Pi Foundation strengthens the ecosystem built on block-based coding, fostering greater innovation and expanding access to computational thinking for people around the world.
Looking forward, I'm excited for our future collaborations with the Foundation's world-class research, learning and product teams. We are committed to Blockly's ongoing development, including both feature development and support. Blockly will continue to be free and open source, and existing projects do not need to change anything about how they use Blockly.
To learn more about the transition and read the FAQ, visit blockly.com
