Since Alan Kay mentioned Nile, I'm gonna dump here the list of relevant resources on Nile and its derivative works that I've found over time: Ohm, the successo

Since Alan Kay mentioned Nile, I'm gonna dump here the list of relevant resources on Nile and its derivative works that I've found over time: Ohm, the successor to the parser (Ometa) used by Nile: https://github.com/harc/ohm https://github.com/harc/ohm Maru, Nile's compiler/interpreter/whatever: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/157xdz/maru_is_a_symbolic_expression_evaluator_that_can/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/157xdz/maru_is... Nile itself: https://github.com/damelang/nile https://github.com/damelang/nile (pdf presentation in README) https://programmingmadecomplicated.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/self-commentary-notes-on-graphics/ https://programmingmadecomplicated.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/... Gezira, svg drawing lib on top of Nile: https://github.com/damelang/gezira/blob/master/nl/stroke.nl https://github.com/damelang/gezira/blob/master/nl/stroke.nl http://web.archive.org/web/20160310162228/http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki/index.php/Gezira http://web.archive.org/web/20160310162228/http://www.vpri.or... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P97O8osukZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P97O8osukZ0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8085728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8085728 (check the demo video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY (live demo on stage later on) https://github.com/damelang/gezira/tree/master/js/demos https://github.com/damelang/gezira/tree/master/js/demos (downloadable and runnable in browser) KScript, UI building on top of Nile: https://www.freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ohshima-2013-KScript.pdf https://www.freudenbergs.de/bert/publications/Ohshima-2013-K... http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/KSWorld.ks/ http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/KSWorld.ks/ Final Viewpoint Research Institute report, where the entire system (antialiasing, font rendering, svg, etc) was rendered using Nile into Frank, the word/excel/powerpoint equivalent written completely in Nile + Gezira + KScript): http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf VPRI wiki restored from archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20171121105004/http://www.vpri.org:80/vp_wiki/ https://web.archive.org/web/20171121105004/http://www.vpri.o... Shadama, which the Nile author (Dan Amelang) worked on too: https://2017.splashcon.org/event/live-2017-shadama-a-particle-simulation-programming-environment-for-everyone https://2017.splashcon.org/event/live-2017-shadama-a-particl... Partial DOM reimplementation on top of Gezira: https://github.com/damelang/mico/blob/master/gezira/svg.js https://github.com/damelang/mico/blob/master/gezira/svg.js Partial reimplementation of Gezira: https://github.com/Twinside/Rasterific https://github.com/Twinside/Rasterific And the famous Nile Viewer itself (everything interactive): http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/high_contrast.html http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/high_contrast.html https://github.com/damelang/nile/tree/master/viz/NileViewer https://github.com/damelang/nile/tree/master/viz/NileViewer Commentary: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4325#comment-66502 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4325#comment-66502 https://fonc.vpri.narkive.com/rtIMYQdk/nile-gezira-was-re-1-ftw https://fonc.vpri.narkive.com/rtIMYQdk/nile-gezira-was-re-1-... http://forum.world.st/Vector-Graphics-was-Pi-performance-fun-td4690038.html http://forum.world.st/Vector-Graphics-was-Pi-performance-fun... Since Alan Kay himself is on Hacker News, maybe he can comment with more links I couldn't find. It's hard to fire up the live Frank environment, though understandably reproducing the working env might not have been a top goal. Maybe someone more cunning can merge these into a single executable repo or whatever so that I can stop playing archaeologist =)