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by mhd 6y ago
Didn't Cuis[1] branch off from Squeak even before that to be closer to its ST-80 roots. Although, if I recall correctly, it does at least use Morphic and not MVC. [1]: https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smallta
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by mhd 6y ago
I'll definitely use this once Fabrice Bellard gets around to writing TinyRust.
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by mhd 6y ago
I really need to do a basic D -betterC project, just using it as a basic low level language, maybe with a dash of DbC. Probably with embracing some Oberon concepts (static imports, single return etc.)
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by mhd 6y ago
On the other hand, professional UX/UI office software designers came up with the ribbon.
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by mhd 6y ago
That's an assumption that needs to be verified. Sure, over a generation it's quite unlikely that evolution made for better mouse users. But we don't need to go that far. I mean, when you were testing during the development of
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by mhd 6y ago
Sometimes it just feels faster to think about and execute keyboard shortcuts, although the actual tests I've read about that seem to be from the early Macintosh age, which feels a bit like measuring anything by looking at your universi
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by mhd 6y ago
Have you had a look at Oberon? That's where Acme took most of its stuff from, and it being a fully integrated language, the interfaces between the parts are a lot cleaner. That's what Oberon, Smalltalk and even Emacs Lisp have tha
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by mhd 6y ago
There's also plenty of other cross-pollination, e.g. the influence that Cedar or even Modula-3 had on Java. Still, I can understand the issues. Let's not forget that despite his work in the field, Hejlsberg isn't Mr. Pascal,
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by mhd 6y ago
Heh, I was doing CAD workstation support about 15 years ago, when there was the big switch between CATIA V4 and V5. SGIs were mostly Octanes plus a few bigger irons, I think, but it also ran on HP-UX and some Sun workstations. There wasn&#x
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by mhd 6y ago
With thing like GraphQL, I get a definite ColdFusion vibe, too.
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by mhd 6y ago
For the open source UI sector, yes. Tk also fell back in the support of widgets people knew from e.g. Windows. If I recall correctly, an editable combo box was only available through extensions. In those days, memory consumption was also an
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by mhd 6y ago
Tcl and various scheme dialects were popular, but they have a pretty unusual syntax, at least when viewed from a typical C/Algol-ish programmer. Lua just came at the right time and place and was more "usual" than that, also w
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by mhd 6y ago
I didn't, keeping the balls/sacks in one plane before me seems beyond my manual dexterity. Haven't succeeded with Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, either ;)
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by mhd 6y ago
Hope they don't run into any problems with the "honk" memes.
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by mhd 6y ago
I wouldn't go as far, the typing feel isn't as good as old Thinkpads and the keys are definitely more fragile. Can't replace them, either. A device of the same form factor, even display, with an Arduino for tinkering and mech
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by mhd 6y ago
Well, I just clicked the link to see if this also includes the Girl from Ipanema…
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by mhd 6y ago
So that's currently scheme-blob -> cc-in-scheme -> tcc -> ancient-gcc -> proper-gcc? Wow, that's something that really deserves the term bootstrapping .
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by mhd 6y ago
Their big feature for the next major release is a Mac version, and until then it works quite okay in wine. Probably better in Linux/Wine, as that tends to have fewer graphics bugs. My enjoyment factor of both DungeonScrawl and DungeonD
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by mhd 6y ago
I've played around it a bit since someone recommended it a few days ago. Great for coarse dungeon layouts, but would probably need some more detail-oriented "finishing" if I'd want to use it for VTT play. Once we're
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by mhd 6y ago
You used to be able to do that with React, too. I think I still got an app running that uses the JSX transpiler you loaded in a <script> tag...
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by mhd 6y ago
There's also ASN.1, the dreadful ancient giant of the scene.
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by mhd 6y ago
I used Tcl for that in the past. Allows for some pretty powerful configuration. For pure "serialization", this is a bit overkill, of course.
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by mhd 6y ago
On the other hand, something like Bootstrap is pretty awesome if you want to create a slightly better, standardized look for your corporate intranet web app or site. Environments where IE11 is still somewhat common and where the relatively
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by mhd 6y ago
Unbelievable for regular software maybe. Quite believable for enterprise contracts, downright cheap for healthcare stuff.
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by mhd 6y ago
I liked playing the Fallout games, I grew up with 8 bit machines, so I'm all in at using a post-apocalyptic scenario as a setup for a though experiment tech stack. In a "ha ha only serious" manner. But on the other hand, real
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by mhd 6y ago
For me this is slightly into Poe's Law territory: Is this actual prepper mindset, or tongue-in-cheek?
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by mhd 6y ago
Seriously asking or just trolling? This statement could be made for almost any language. Why did we start with Python when there was Perl? Why did we start with Perl when we could use shell and awk? Why did we start writing something like a
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by mhd 6y ago
Crystal is quite interesting, but a fib benchmark?
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by mhd 6y ago
I still feel bamboozled by the mockbuster "J++ for C++ Programmers".
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by mhd 6y ago
There also was SCGI as something easier to implement than FastCGI, but allowing for persistent processes. So I'm sure one could come up with yet another CGI version that's slightly better tuned for a different need and still retai

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