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Hm... It feels like pmOS would be an ideal host for running applications written in http://www.red-lang.org/ http://www.red-lang.org/ It has a very concise, cr
by onetom 9y ago
Hm... It feels like pmOS would be an ideal host for running applications written in http://www.red-lang.org/ http://www.red-lang.org/
It has a very concise, cross-platform GUI DSL ("inherited" from Rebol) which requires a 1MB runtime only on top of the host OS' GUI system.
Look what can you build in ~7kB which can run on top of a 1MB runtime, not a 100MB browser...
http://www.red-lang.org/2016/12/incursion-into-explorable-explanations.html http://www.red-lang.org/2016/12/incursion-into-explorable-ex...
A few years ago I've actually built an iPhone app launcher simulator in a few kilobytes which looked exactly the same on a PPC iBook, an x86 Mac Mini or a Windows PC...
- ktta 9y agoLooks like a good fit on first look but I'm wondering about the architecture/compiler fit with the rest of pmOS. Especially with the ARM chips being so varied, a more popular language with wide arch support might be a better choice.
- ollieparanoid 9y agoIf it works on Linux, why not? Everyone is encouraged to work on what they like best, and we will together, as a community, pick sane defaults from the best components we have. See also: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Milestones https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Milestones
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoFrom that link: > For Linux folks, sorry guys, the GUI support is not yet ready for prime time, though in the meantime, you could use Wine, Red GUI usually runs just fine on it.