> there's something really magical about having one ecosystem where you can so seamlessly play with user input, network requests, audio, graphics, It seems th

> there's something really magical about having one ecosystem where you can so seamlessly play with user input, network requests, audio, graphics, It seems that that was the experience Smalltalk was aiming for back in the 1980's with it's totally integrated development environments (integrated to the point that it was basically its own operating system). One could argue that the modern web browser with its integrated tooling for javascript is a reasonable modern interpretation for this. Note the similarities that the web-browser is almost its own operating system in this scenario as well