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This reminds me of the General Magic / Kaleida / Taligent /Pink stuff being sorta/kinda done by Apple in the late 80s (early 90s? Both?). There were agents and

by ci5er 7y ago

This reminds me of the General Magic / Kaleida / Taligent /Pink stuff being sorta/kinda done by Apple in the late 80s (early 90s? Both?). There were agents and software ICs and messaging in the air! (I don't know why, because interconnect in-system and out-system all more-or-less sucked). Like Xanadu, this was all kind of "ahead of its time" stuff, and I've never understood why it wasn't resurrected in simpler form since (yet). What are you trying to ultimately accomplish here? It all appears quite elegant, but I'm not sure I can infer the end-game of the project or enterprise. EDIT: Forgive me. I'm running on time-lagged batteries, and I suspect that you suggest more than I am picking up on...

mpweiher 7y ago
The endgame is I want to change programming. It's been too sucky for too long. Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for? Quite frankly I'd be happy if someone else were to do it, but since nobody stepped up I reluctantly started (a) figuring out what was wrong and (b) fixing it.
- vanderZwan 7y ago
  So I have finally watched the video, read the accompanying blog post and then the "Storage Combinators" paper. All I an say is: you have a new RSS subscriber to your blog. Have you considered showcasing Objective-Smalltalk on lobste.rs and /r/programminglanguages? [0] https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/programminglanguages https://old.reddit.com/r/programminglanguages
GeekyBear 7y ago
Google's Fuchsia derives in part from Pink mixed with concepts from iPhone. >Fuchsia is an open source capability-based operating system currently being developed by Google. The source documentation describes the reasoning behind the name as "Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)", which is a reference to Pink (Apple's first effort at a object-oriented, microkernel based operating system), and Purple (the original iPhone's codename) https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia

by ci5er 7y ago

mpweiher 7y ago

The endgame is I want to change programming. It's been too sucky for too long. Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for? Quite frankly I'd be happy if someone else were to do it, but since nobody stepped up I reluctantly started (a) figuring out what was wrong and (b) fixing it.

vanderZwan 7y ago
So I have finally watched the video, read the accompanying blog post and then the "Storage Combinators" paper. All I an say is: you have a new RSS subscriber to your blog. Have you considered showcasing Objective-Smalltalk on lobste.rs and /r/programminglanguages? [0] https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/programminglanguages https://old.reddit.com/r/programminglanguages

GeekyBear 7y ago

Google's Fuchsia derives in part from Pink mixed with concepts from iPhone. >Fuchsia is an open source capability-based operating system currently being developed by Google. The source documentation describes the reasoning behind the name as "Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)", which is a reference to Pink (Apple's first effort at a object-oriented, microkernel based operating system), and Purple (the original iPhone's codename) https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia