This is nice but not even a mention of the rather robust existing solution here with Magit Forge?
Malleable computing, Emacs, and you
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#12AutoHotkey adds a malleable computing layer to Windows.
Meh, it's better than nothing. Though not a great interface or DSL.
2.0 fixes a ton of stuff over 1.0, but yeah you're not wrong.
Between custom keybinds, hot strings, and pop-up menus I have literally hundreds of tiny AHK scripts running 24/7. I'm pretty sure there's stuff I've literally forgotten is an AHK vs an actual part of Windows. It's all just ingrained in my muscle memory at this point.
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#13Useless without local/remote sync. Also kind of obvious is the preferability of composeable UNIX programs over heavily locked down monoliths, hardly calling for a Fred Brooks style exegesis.
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#14OP here. Happy to answer any questions about my post in this thread.
Great article, TIL vtable.
Amazing how much value you got with 400 LoC (even though it's relying on multiple libraries).
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#15Yet another one rediscovers the way Lisp machines, Smalltalk, Cedar and Oberon were envisioned, and we never really got it in mainstream computing. Nice article.
I genuinely do wonder why that has been the trajectory. When you look at the almost futuristic vision of interacting with living, programmable software objects and environments that evolve over time and you get a glimpse of it in Emacs, Pharo or Oberon (worth mentioning Free Oberon, fun to play around with https://free.oberon.org/en/ think it was on the frontpage recently), how did we go back to dead text files again?
I always have to think the "the world if" meme when I think about what would have happened if the whole Engelbart, Licklider, Alan Kay school of thought had won out
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#16OP here. Happy to answer any questions about my post in this thread.
Out of curiosity, are you now or have you ever been a "Mac person"? I'm curious if you've ever gone down the rabbit hole on Apple's history of technologies for what I think you'd call "malleable computing" at the OS level, like Open Scripting Architecture/AppleScript and now App Intents?
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#17OP here. Happy to answer any questions about my post in this thread.
Out of curiosity, are you now or have you ever been a "Mac person"? I'm curious if you've ever gone down the rabbit hole on Apple's history of technologies for what I think you'd call "malleable computing" at the OS level, like Open Scripting Architecture/AppleScript and now App Intents?
If you're into malleable computing you'd never have been a "Mac person"
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, are you now or have you ever been a "Mac person"? I'm curious if you've ever gone down the rabbit hole on Apple's history of technologies for what I think you'd call "malleable computing" at the OS level, like Open Scripting Architecture/AppleScript and now App Intents?
If you're into malleable computing you'd never have been a "Mac person"
How was OSA/AppleScript not an OS-level malleable computing layer?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, are you now or have you ever been a "Mac person"? I'm curious if you've ever gone down the rabbit hole on Apple's history of technologies for what I think you'd call "malleable computing" at the OS level, like Open Scripting Architecture/AppleScript and now App Intents?
If you're into malleable computing you'd never have been a "Mac person"
Yeah, NeXTSTEP is notoriously a locked-down, untweakable OS. It's not like anyone was able to use it to program anything of consequence.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're into malleable computing you'd never have been a "Mac person"
How was OSA/AppleScript not an OS-level malleable computing layer?
I don't know first hand of anyone who ever used it for anything. Maybe I knew the wrong Mac users (mostly teachers).