Re:Lively.next: A personal programming kit
by rmbeard on Saturday October 28, 2017 @09:48PM
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How hard is it to get this to work with something other than Javascript?
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Re:Lively.next: A personal programming kit
by robertkrahn01 on Saturday October 28, 2017 @10:03PM
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Not very hard. Two years ago we did something similar for Clojure:
http://cloxp.github.io/cloxp-intro.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQvvgzvPgQI
We are currently evaluating options for getting this stuff funded and Python would be a another target language / platform.
I can see python being very useful for this, but perhaps ruby would be a better fit? I can't help but wonder if lively.next+ruby on the truffle vm might not be able to steal a lot of attention, and kick off a bit of an "old-style" / message-passing object oriented revival... One can hope...
On The other hand, zope/zodb did manage to get pretty far wrt "magically persistent" object graphs for python.