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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by pjmlp on Thursday September 30, 2021 @01:50PM (#28709055)
I guess NeWS [0] is a likely candidate, as Mesa/Cedar[1] as well.

Many of these ideas also kind of exist in Windows, with COM/OLE/.NET/Powershell, or GNOME/KDE, although not in consistent way.

I always felt SOM was much better than COM, it even had metaclasses as concept.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by criddell on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:51PM (#28709769)
Oh wow - I've never heard of NeWS before. That sounds like it was 20 years ahead of it's time and all the ideas had to be reinvented in Javascript to succeed. Thanks for the links.
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