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The Lively Kernel
- mahmud 18y agoWhat doesn't Sun get? this is a hacker's hack; an Smalltalk implementation in javascript: http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/index.xhtml http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/index.xhtml Read what the man wrote: "Everything you need is in the browser. There is a dynamic language there. It may not be your favorite, but it's not a bad one either. There is also a graphics system. Not the best, but pretty nice. Hook it all up with a simple user interface and you're having fun the way people should have fun with computing. I don't mean just fun for entertainment, but it's creatively inspiring. It makes you want to do cool stuff," Ingalls, for the uninitiated, pioneered the implementation of high-performance Smalltalk systems, including his contribution to Squeak. Wikipedia credits him for inventing the BitBlt algorithm that made bitmapped displays FAST, and invented popup menus. If anybody is qualified to say what is a fun, intuitive programming environment it's Dan Ingalls.