Re:“What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”
by discreteevent on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:57PM
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I read it as the browser should just be a VM. It's low level. Then the objects that run in the VM provide the features. This solves a lot of problems. The browser is slowly evolving to do this anyway with js, then wasm (reality is proving Kay right) but the underlying high levelness of it makes it a mess. A VM is more flexible and robust and at the same time simpler than a browser
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Re:“What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”
by mgummelt on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:23PM
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The difference is that, in order to foster composition, the platform can't just be a VM. It must also provide the interfaces by which objects interact. Take Java. It's not just a VM. It's also the JDK/JCL.