[HN Gopher] State of the SqueakPhone
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State of the SqueakPhone
Author : tonyg
Score : 49 points
Date : 2022-07-15 19:53 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| travisgriggs wrote:
| Red, yellow, blue buttons.
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| I worked with VisualWorks (nee Objectworks) for many years, and
| red/yellow/blue button events were still in the low level user
| input processing of code. They predated the semi-standardization
| of mouse buttons. I still have a strong synaptic response for
| them. My brain just automatically knows what kind of operations
| it will find for each of those colors.
| projektfu wrote:
| OMG I was just thinking about this idea. I'll have to check it
| out.
| zdryasenry wrote:
| You might throw in a few more comments about how synit is a
| replacement for systemd and d-bus.
|
| Seriously though, is "not being systemd" such a strong part of
| the project's identity that it bears being repeated so much?
| transfire wrote:
| Fascinating.
|
| Smalltalk projects like this (and Pharo) are the only things
| keeping me interested in OOP and hesitating to go all in on FP.
| ryukafalz wrote:
| I've been watching this project with much interest, though I
| haven't yet had the time to play around with it myself. A
| capability-style system layer for Linux is very exciting!
|
| (The phone side of things is exciting too, though as much as I
| like Smalltalk I wonder if Squeak is entirely up to the task of
| hosting a phone UI.)
|
| Still need to dive further into the syndicated actor model side
| of things though; I think I have use cases for it but don't
| entirely grok it yet.
| tonyg wrote:
| As part of working on synit, I've managed to write up some of
| the core Syndicated ideas a bit better:
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| - An essay on what the Syndicated Actor Model is:
| https://synit.org/book/syndicated-actor-model.html
|
| - A big ol' glossary of relevant concepts:
| https://synit.org/book/glossary.html
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| - A protocol spec for interoperation among Syndicated programs:
| https://synit.org/book/protocol.html
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| Maybe some of these will be of use to you. I'm also happy to
| answer questions if you have any!
| tonyg wrote:
| Incidentally, I'm not sure about Squeak as the main user-facing
| bit, either. I love the idea of having a handheld, battery-
| powered, internet connected Smalltalk machine; but Squeak's UI
| is currently very desktop-focussed, and single-host-window-
| focussed, at that. (I'm working on that latter elsewhere [1].)
| Squeak's flexibility means it doesn't have to stay that way,
| and experimenting with alternatives is easy, making it maybe a
| good environment to prototype alternative phone UIs. Whichever
| way you slice it, it's a lot of work, of course.
|
| [1] https://squeaksource.com/X11.html
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