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I remember the WWDC that seemed to have a very “solar” graphical motif and my friends and I were all freaking out with speculation that Solaris and OS X were go
by peatmoss 4y ago
I remember the WWDC that seemed to have a very “solar” graphical motif and my friends and I were all freaking out with speculation that Solaris and OS X were going to merge in some meaningful way.
That unfortunately happened in the good timeline where Scheme in the browser also happened.
- jedberg 4y agoThe video from WWDC is linked in a sibling comment. It had that universe theme with a star field and the files shrinking back into a supernova. > That unfortunately happened in the good timeline where Scheme in the browser also happened. Oh man that would be amazing. It would be so much better than javascript!
- peatmoss 4y agoI think it was the year or so after Time Machine launched that a bunch of banners up in Moscone Center had us convinced of a grand Sun / Apple tech marriage. Re Scheme: It was the first choice of Javascript’s inventor, Brenden Eich, but the suits didn’t go for it. If you want to have a good cry, look up DSSSL and imagine the alternate timeline with S-expressions instead of HTML, DSSSL instead of CSS, and Scheme instead of Javascript. Pretty sure there’s also a robust open source OpenStep or NeWS ecosystem instead of X11, Al Gore was a two termer, and 9/11 never happened.