At one stage on the eve journey they were showing a sort of wiki/database thing that I wanted to use very much. It seemed like it'd be fantastic for iteratively organising the kind of information you encounter in your day to day life. Unfortunately that version of eve never saw the light of day as far as I know. Does anyone know of anything that works similarly?
You don't have a screenshot, or any more leads on finding it do you? It sounds like an interesting concept but I'm having trouble finding an image of it.
Gallery of programming UIs
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#32It's missing the highly influential Delphi, which was the precursor to .NET
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're feeling nostalgic - just create some VBA, amazing how it's hardly changed... This picture taken from Word 2016 a few seconds ago: https://i.imgur.com/w3qX8Oa.png
Indeed VBA is a very curious phenomenon. It is cool from the retro-lover point of view (and nostalgia makes me enjoy having to code it occasionally in the real life) yet a horrible atavism from the modern developer point of view. The built-in code editor is not much smarter than Notepad is and the language itself is a ridiculous cargo-cult-level OOP imitation with no real OOP nor functional (wouldn't these be of grea…
Yet despite all that VB6 and VBA are very productive, inexperienced users can get things done and experienced users can get things done quickly.
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#36They should include sublime text, writing at many places at the same time sounds weird yet it is so useful.
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#37Lively! LivelyKernel (2008): https://www.lively-kernel.org/ lively.next (2017): https://lively-next.org cloxp (2015): http://cloxp.github.io/cloxp-intro.html
lively.next looks exactly like something I’ve been thinking about. How come though that the demo video shows it in use on Linux but the desktop application is macOS only?
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#38They should include sublime text, writing at many places at the same time sounds weird yet it is so useful.
If I'm correct TextMate was first using multiple cursors before sublime text came, but yes, sublime text has such a versatile UI!
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#39Expected to see TUI (Terminal UI) IDEs here (the likes of DBase/Foxbase/Foxpro/etc). Disappointed, because they were hugely used "programmer interfaces" for a long time and influenced GUIs when they came up.
Heck, a lot of retail TUIs still run on them (and some of them are in process of being changed to "web apps" bypassing desktop apps). They were yesterday's full stack (design a database, build forms, run CLI commands, write OO code, package and distribute - all in one shell).
I think the post should be titled "programming GUIs" and not "programming UIs".
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#40Am I the only one who looks at the DEC VT05 from 1970 and thinks that it still looks cool? I guess it's because I was 5 or so when Space 1999 was on, and everything looked like that, but I think there's something timeless and classic about the lines of the design.
(Waits for someone from HN to say that one is still their main terminal as they eschew software terminals, etc!)