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The possibilities of bringing back this way of thinking are tantalizing to me. The intersection of end user programming a discoverable system with the pervasive
by endlessvoid94 6y ago
The possibilities of bringing back this way of thinking are tantalizing to me. The intersection of end user programming a discoverable system with the pervasiveness of the cloud could be really awesome. Something like a mashup of Automator, Hypercard, Heroku, and Smalltalk.
The only reason this doesn't exist is simply that nobody has decided to build it yet.
- scroot 6y ago> The only reason this doesn't exist is simply that nobody has decided to build it yet. It also takes a lot of time and effort, and so needs to be funded along with minimal interference from the bureaucracy of a business. Smalltalk and Hypercard came out of precisely those kind of environments. Today the goals of businesses are much different -- much more short term and quarterly focused. I don't have much faith that FOSS can come up with it either, since so much depends on part time work of loosely connected people. I hope I'm wrong though!
- hhas01 6y agoWorking on it… https://github.com/hhas/iris-script https://github.com/hhas/iris-script
- endlessvoid94 6y agothis is really cool! thank you for sharing