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Historically, Smalltalk has many browsers (views). This System Browser is one of many browsers, and the most busy-looking. You can browse within it, and also

by neilv 8mo ago

Historically, Smalltalk has many browsers (views). This System Browser is one of many browsers, and the most busy-looking. You can browse within it, and also spawn off other kinds of browsers from it. And these browsers are extensible with others. As someone new to Smalltalk, I was pretty easily able to add a visual class hierarchy browser into this environment: https://www.neilvandyke.org/smalltalk-chg/ https://www.neilvandyke.org/smalltalk-chg/ Half the things we know or think about in HCI, the people at PARC figured out before we were born, and sometimes before the hardware to test it existed. https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

pjmlp 8mo ago
Including how to build a full workstation with memory safe systems languages, besides Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, now recovered and playable in the browser, https://interlisp.org/ https://interlisp.org/ Mesa with XDE (think the safety Zig is selling today, but in 1985) http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf//xerox/xde/XDE_3.0_Nov84/610E00130_XDE_Concepts_and_Principles_Sep85.pdf http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf//xerox/xde/... Cedar, a full graphics workstation in the evolution of Mesa, now with proper mix of reference counting + cycle collector, as full GC implementation, Here the demo done by Eric Bier for the Computer History Museum, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4