Protopie seems limited since a message can be sent using only one value as a parameter. However, arrays (written as text strings and manipulated by parseJson) can be used for contexts where multiple parameters need to be passed.
Variables are very powerful simplifying tool and they do not seem to have any impact on Protopie’s performance.
A message sent to the current scene will be received by the object that sent it. But a message sent to Protopie Studio (Connect) will not be received by the pie that sent it. B ut what if there is nothing out there to respond to it?
It is very important to annotate your code with what it is actually doing, but keeping the trigger and response names helps someone new to the project (or you in three month’s time.
Protopie code can get complex and hard to follow surprisingly quickly. Putting as much code as possible within your components can keep your main scenes simpler and cleaner.
It will often seem as though it will be faster to use individual elements than to use components, but in the end the time saving almost always goes the other way.