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You may be very interested in the STEPS project from Alan Kay’s Viewpoints Research Institute. STEPS was an attempt to build an entire desktop operating system
by linguae 4y ago
You may be very interested in the STEPS project from Alan Kay’s Viewpoints Research Institute. STEPS was an attempt to build an entire desktop operating system environment with only 20,000 lines of code. In order to accomplish this, the design makes extensive use of DSLs defined using OMeta. There are examples of TCP and the 2D graphics framework being implemented in an impressively small amount of code.
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf
- ianandrich 4y agoDid you go down the rabbit hole from yesterday too?
- linguae 4y agoI didn’t see any posts related to STEPS yesterday, but I’ve been aware of STEPS for a few years.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoIt was this link [1] from a couple days ago. There was a fair bit of discussion about it on HN [2]. [1] https://chreke.com/little-languages.html https://chreke.com/little-languages.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33693472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33693472
- ianandrich 4y agoThats it.
- corysama 4y agoAdding on: Alan Kay gave several fascinating talks about the project. Such as https://youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY https://youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY