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I have long wanted something that was basically a modern~ish Smalltalk environment, that spends more energy integrating with the rest of the world. Emacs is as
by jfb 3y ago
I have long wanted something that was basically a modern~ish Smalltalk environment, that spends more energy integrating with the rest of the world. Emacs is as close as we can get to a system that is inspectable, plastic, and open; I want those qualities in my entire computing environment, and there is literally nothing available for any price better than Emacs at this, but Emacs isn't good at it.
- omnicognate 3y agoThen go ahead and build it. All I'm saying is that A) that's a fork of emacs I won't be remotely interested in and B) I highly doubt starting with emacs will be good way to achieve it (but go ahead and try by all means). (Anything that removes terminal support from emacs will be a fork.)
- jfb 3y agoYeah, it's true. And Emacs would be a very poor substrate for this.
- iLemming 3y ago> (Anything that removes terminal support from emacs will be a fork.) GNU/Emacs already has tons of features that don't work in terminal and it's not a fork. GUI has: - better fonts and better colors - childframe support, nice for posframes - viewing images and pdfs - SVG support - icons and emojis - etc.
- rileyphone 3y agoI believe the web currently possesses the capabilities to make a networked Emacs/Smalltalk style system, souped up with AI, targeting web applications that don't require downloads; I've been pursuing such a system for a while and hope to have a prototype soon. There isn't really anything like this - Emacs is stuck in Unix-land, Replit is tied to React/Next.js (blegh), and Urbit sees obscurity as a virtue.
- trenchgun 3y agohttps://pharo.org/ https://pharo.org/ ?
- guestbest 3y agoIs there a modern smalltalk that focuses on building TUI?