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Re:Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts by pjmlp on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:42AM (#28851943)
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.

Re:Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts by igouy on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @12:37PM (#28854347)
Lost the Smalltalk content on youtube, so

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02966704/document