Re:Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
by amelius on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:40AM
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Tcl/Tk reinvented?
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I have been seeing lots of reinventations lately, I guess learning about computer history is not really a thing.
One of the lesson that I believe is being learned is that general purpose programming languages for UIs make it difficult to do tooling, especially with dynamic typing.
This particular approach (.60) is not a general purpose programming language and it's strongly typed.
It's designed for the user interface, not for writing the rest of the program in it.
I feel this is rather different from the tcl/tk applications we used to see?
As Lisp, Smalltalk, Dylan and Postscript have proven during the early days, it is possible.
The problem is that current generations cannot see beyond their vi/emacs CLI setups and are too invested into HTML/CS/JS stacks to see otherwise.
Some quickly picked examples,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
"Smalltalk usage for UI prototyping in Thales industrial context"
https://youtu.be/Oq1RSDn2P5Y?t=1030
"Interface Builder's Alternative Lisp Timeline"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21828622
Which by the way, makes the binding Objective-C / Smalltalk /Lisp in UI design.
Lost the Smalltalk content on youtube, so
Or Motif's UIL, as if people cried out for that.