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This project is cool as hell. I really appreciate that it has very straightforward instructions and takes no time to get up and running, it's just a git clone a

This project is cool as hell. I really appreciate that it has very straightforward instructions and takes no time to get up and running, it's just a git clone and an install command. The only quirk I ran into is that when I ran graphical programs, I would get a full-screen window with a blank prompt; I needed to move that window to another workspace in order for the running program to be displayed. The IDE seems to get smushed into the bottom corner of the screen in KDE and gnome for some reason (which I could work around by toggling windowed mode with alt+enter and then dragging the window to resize), but it works fine in i3. Between discovering this and finally getting around to trying the Factor language, I'm afraid I'm going to be very unproductive on my side projects for a while..

benj111 3y ago
>I'm afraid I'm going to be very unproductive on my side projects for a while I infer that your main project is discovering things that may one day help you be more productive in your side projects. It could be worse. Ben Eater was just trying to get his web browser working like he wanted...
kekc_leader 3y ago
Thank you very much. I love Oberon for its simplicity and structuredness, and I find it best-suited for all programming tasks. I even use it in web-programming. So when I found out about Oberon, I noticed that there is nothing that I can easily install to start programming in it. I tried XDS, OO2C, VOC, BlackBox, and everything was not that I wanted. It was nothing as simple as, for example, Free Pascal, where you just download and use it. So I made Free Oberon. I switched several times from SDL 2 to Allegro 5 and 4 and back (with a lot of recoding on each step), also switched compilers from VOC to BlackBox and finally Ofront+. I'm planning to substitute it with my own Oberon compiler at some point, so I read everything about compiler construction and do Oberon experiments a lot. Could you please describe the issue with the full-screen a bit more? You can create an "issue" in the FreeOberon Github repo. I think it would be possible to fix it. Are you using two monitors?
- BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
  I learned about Oberon by experimenting with the Acme editor (which borrows heavily from Oberon) and from learning about its influences on the Go language. The language doesn't "look modern", but it does seem very simple, and it seems really fun to learn. And I very much enjoy the retro feel of it. A bonus for me personally is that I happen to be learning Russian, and there's a fair bit of documentation and videos that I can use for immersion learning, which is a lot of fun. I will be sure to help with the full-screen issue soon.

benj111 3y ago

>I'm afraid I'm going to be very unproductive on my side projects for a while I infer that your main project is discovering things that may one day help you be more productive in your side projects. It could be worse. Ben Eater was just trying to get his web browser working like he wanted...

kekc_leader 3y ago

Thank you very much. I love Oberon for its simplicity and structuredness, and I find it best-suited for all programming tasks. I even use it in web-programming. So when I found out about Oberon, I noticed that there is nothing that I can easily install to start programming in it. I tried XDS, OO2C, VOC, BlackBox, and everything was not that I wanted. It was nothing as simple as, for example, Free Pascal, where you just download and use it. So I made Free Oberon. I switched several times from SDL 2 to Allegro 5 and 4 and back (with a lot of recoding on each step), also switched compilers from VOC to BlackBox and finally Ofront+. I'm planning to substitute it with my own Oberon compiler at some point, so I read everything about compiler construction and do Oberon experiments a lot. Could you please describe the issue with the full-screen a bit more? You can create an "issue" in the FreeOberon Github repo. I think it would be possible to fix it. Are you using two monitors?

BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
I learned about Oberon by experimenting with the Acme editor (which borrows heavily from Oberon) and from learning about its influences on the Go language. The language doesn't "look modern", but it does seem very simple, and it seems really fun to learn. And I very much enjoy the retro feel of it. A bonus for me personally is that I happen to be learning Russian, and there's a fair bit of documentation and videos that I can use for immersion learning, which is a lot of fun. I will be sure to help with the full-screen issue soon.