Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi
by johndoe0815 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @10:28AM
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That's definitely a shame - and, as far as I know none of the open source Unix(-like) systems has exposed a similar functionality. I think D-bus should enable something like it, but I haven't had a closer look at that...
Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi
by endlessvoid94 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @11:49AM
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The possibilities of bringing back this way of thinking are tantalizing to me. The intersection of end user programming a discoverable system with the pervasiveness of the cloud could be really awesome. Something like a mashup of Automator, Hypercard, Heroku, and Smalltalk.
The only reason this doesn't exist is simply that nobody has decided to build it yet.
Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi
by scroot on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:06PM
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> The only reason this doesn't exist is simply that nobody has decided to build it yet.
It also takes a lot of time and effort, and so needs to be funded along with minimal interference from the bureaucracy of a business. Smalltalk and Hypercard came out of precisely those kind of environments. Today the goals of businesses are much different -- much more short term and quarterly focused. I don't have much faith that FOSS can come up with it either, since so much depends on part time work of loosely connected people.
I hope I'm wrong though!
Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi
by hhas01 on Sunday July 19, 2020 @02:40PM
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Working on it…
Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi
by endlessvoid94 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @10:47PM
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this is really cool! thank you for sharing
I have been thinking a lot lately about HyperCard and Applescript. They represent a line of thinking that has more or less been abandoned by the commercial side of personal computing, which is really too bad. Applescript still exists, sure, but they've really let it die on the vine. Back in the late 90s I hoped they would make the whole front end of the OS in a HyperCard like system, so that everything could be manipulated by the user. Don't like how this part of the Finder works? No problem, just peel back a layer and see what's going on.