Re:Cat9: A command-line shell written in Lua
by anthk on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:32PM
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>The last flavour covers the no-man’s land of everything in between, the multi-million lines of UI toolkits. They come with much of the complexity of the VMs and about as much barren legacy as the terminals.
TCL/TK was like that.
>Authenticate against the device, not a dynamic ‘user’. Then, allow safe, ephemeral, secure sharing of the smallest, innermost compartment or an interactively defined aggregation thereof. This compartment is ‘the window’, not ‘the desktop’.
From plan9 and the upgraded 9front: Factotum, namespaces.
TCL/TK was like that.
>Authenticate against the device, not a dynamic ‘user’. Then, allow safe, ephemeral, secure sharing of the smallest, innermost compartment or an interactively defined aggregation thereof. This compartment is ‘the window’, not ‘the desktop’.
From plan9 and the upgraded 9front: Factotum, namespaces.