Swift is a more convenient Rust

Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by pjmlp on Sunday September 08, 2024 @02:57AM (#41478688)

Maybe, I never heard of "Director", its documentation seems hard to come by in digital world.

Although Wikipedia also points out that, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming

Actually your remark has made me dive into alternative prototype based languages.

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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by lispm on Sunday September 08, 2024 @05:39AM (#41479293)

Check the resume of Ken Kahn: http://toontalk.com/resume.pdf

Director Guide: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6302/AIM-482b...

Creation of Computer Animation from Story Descriptions: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16012/0720063...

The other mentioned tool was Thinglab, by Alan Borning

https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/77-1/Papers/085.pdf

"The Smalltalk notion of an object has been modified and extended in a number of ways. In ThingLab, objects are constructed interactively by editing and making descendants of prototypes. An abstraction hierarchy is used that allows arbitrarily many levels of both parents and descendants, with the problem of objects with several parents being handled by the technique of merging. There is no distinction between classes and instances."

"The Programming Language Aspects of ThingLab, a Constraint-Oriented Simulation Laboratory" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/357146.357147

"CLASSES VERSUS PROTOTYPES IN OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGES" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/324493.324538

Available in the Browser, running in Smalltalk: https://constraints.cs.washington.edu/thinglab/

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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by pjmlp on Sunday September 08, 2024 @06:09AM (#41479441)

Thanks for the overview.

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