Living in your programming environment [pdf]
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·February 23, 2025vindarel
Everyone can try the Medley Lisp machine in the browser today! https://interlisp.org/project/status/2024medleyannualreport/
ynniv
For a second I thought it had been ported to wasm! This is still a browser based VNC
dargscisyhp
You can already do this using Emacs with EXWM. I've been living this way for years.
cmrdporcupine
LambdaMOO was(is) like this. And even more literally than in Smalltalk. Persistent objects, object oriented programming language, live code editing, object manipulation, programming right in the world, with immediate and shared effect.
But unlike a Smalltalk environment, the things you were editing were (in metaphor at least) living narrative "world" objects like rooms, objects, characters, etc. meant to give a (text-based) "VR" aspect. And it was multiuser, so collaborative.
It's a compelling, though exotic, way of making things.
I'm attempting to defibrilate the whole thing here: https://github.com/rdaum/moor
If you'd like to literally live, breathe and walk around inside of your programming environment with your colleagues, set up your own https://dynamicland.org/ :D