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Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi by endlessvoid94 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @11:49AM (#23882166)
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.

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Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi by scroot on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:06PM (#23883378)
> 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!

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Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi by hhas01 on Sunday July 19, 2020 @02:40PM (#23891388)
Working on it…

https://github.com/hhas/iris-script

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Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi by endlessvoid94 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @10:47PM (#23913440)
this is really cool! thank you for sharing
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