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by elgertam 5y ago
I'd rather have a capability-based distributed system that is agnostic about persistence as long as capabilities are, well, capabilities. A friend of mine is working on Syndicate[0], and I find it interesting. Not really an OS metaphor
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by elgertam 6y ago
I plan to: a working system. That seems to be true to the spirit of STEPS, VPRI and Alan Kay himself.
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by elgertam 6y ago
Maru development is documented on an active mailing list.[1] Dan did a demo of a related language to Nile at Oracle Open World in September 2019. (Full disclosure: I worked on the demo.) I would predict that more information will be forthco
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by elgertam 6y ago
> Is there some place STEPS fans can gather and gather our notes? There are archives of the FONC mailing list. Maru development is documented on an active mailing list.[1] Ohm development is being coordinated through GitHub. I'd per
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by elgertam 6y ago
The biggest artifact from STEPS was Frank, which was at the time bootstrapped using Squeak Smalltalk and included the work from Ian Piumarta (IDST/Maru, which was a fully bootstrapped LISP down to the metal), Dan Amelang (Nile, the gra
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by elgertam 6y ago
They did use VCS, actually, but a lot of them used SVN and each person in the STEPS project was hosting their own code. Most of those servers have gone dark now, though you can find random ports over to GitHub (rarely with the version histo
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by elgertam 8y ago
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. So says Tim Peters in The Zen of Python. Unfortunately, this statement has never been true of the packaging ecosystem. Today, tools like Pipenv, Pipsi, Pyenv and Coo
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