marrvelous

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   by marrvelous 4y ago

   My favorite HyperCard story is mostly well known: Myst was written entirely in it. HyperCard had some primitive reflection capabilities, where you could open a different HyperCard file and read its scripts. I was pretty blown away when I u
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   by marrvelous 4y ago

   Reading this made me miss BeOS. Blazingly fast UI. Mandatory to use separate threads for app rendering and processing user input to stay responsive under load. File system was implemented as queryable database with arbitrary metadata, so sc
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   by marrvelous 6y ago

   Agreed. The conclusion of the article feels pretty unsupported, especially considering that AppleTalk still survives to this day.
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   by marrvelous 6y ago

   Which lead to a pretty magical moment for me as a kid. Turns out it’s trivial to write a HyperCard program that opens another HyperCard stack and extract its source code. Imagine the look on our faces when my best friend and I tried this...
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   by marrvelous 6y ago

   With the walled garden, Apple can set enforceable timelines for the software ecosystem to adopt to architectural changes. Remember the transition to arm64? Apple forced everything on the App Store to ship universal binaries. Without the App