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I've always wondered how things would have gone had Apple been able to release MacBASIC: https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html https://www.folklore.org/MacBas
by WillAdams 3y ago
I've always wondered how things would have gone had Apple been able to release MacBASIC:
https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html
HyperCard was close, and I've been productive with its clones, and hope that something interesting happens w/ LiveCode Community Edition, but I wonder if the solution isn't just Domain Specific Languages wrapped up in nice applications.
I've been pretty successful w/ OpenSCAD, and its Customizer is _amazing_ and the new ability to run it in the browser is way cool:
https://seasick.github.io/openscad-web-gui/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillAdams/Design_Into_3D/master/openscadwebgui/Impossible_Dovetail_Box.scad https://seasick.github.io/openscad-web-gui/?https://raw.gith...
for a finished example see:
https://forum.makerforums.info/t/using-openscad-web-gui-to-make-a-dxf-to-cut-a-project/89278/2 https://forum.makerforums.info/t/using-openscad-web-gui-to-m...
That said, its limitations are striking, and I have big hopes for:
http://pythonscad.org http://pythonscad.org
That said, I'd really like to see some programming environment worked up which was:
- dynamic/interactive
- allowed drawing up an interface in an interactive/iterative fashion
- wasn't painfully sandboxed as Scratch or the LISPs seem to be
- allowed exporting a stand-alone application --- ideally cross-platform