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How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people
- twoodfin 3y agoThe Dylan project is another example. Given Apple’s precarious situation, it probably wouldn’t have had a chance even if Java hadn’t steamrolled through the industry exactly as they were trying to get it off the ground.
- k310 3y agoThe reason, IMO, that these excellent tools didn't take off is that they weren't cross-platform. ( forgot if ProGraph was). In the case of HyperCard, it was apparently a deliberate decision by SJ. I say he chose poorly. I don't recall any other really popular and easily approachable and affordable (meaning free) programming environments that were fully cross-platform. That excludes C and Perl and so forth (pun unintended) that only command-line hackers use(d). What works today? Jupyter Notebooks? (Carnets on iPad) Processing? They don't have the low level access of the aforementioned tools. AFAIK. What would you install on every machine (give or take tiny mobile devices) short of the full developer toolset? Cross-Platform, free, approachable, and some control "system()" capability. Basic doesn't count. I found only gambas to be cross-platform, with a couple of apps for iOS. ( for old times sake)