Hi Owen,
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:37:33PM +0800, blubee blubeeme wrote:
Hello
I recently came across Alan Kay's talks on youtube, then that lead me to Dan Ingalls and looking at smalltalk, squeak and object oriented programming as thought up by Alan Kay in the 1960s.
Welcome!
I wonder how come this type of computing isn't the mainstream. We've seen other OS pop up since then that were a lot less capable that got some mainstream success.
We are not very good at mainstream marketing around here. But at least you can buy the t-shirt now:
https://shop.spreadshirt.com/Squeak
It seems like this type of computing gets put in the kiddy corner and most people don't know about it or those who do kinda use it and sometimes people just don't seem to get it.
Has anyone ever though about making a platform where squeak is customized to the hardware, something like android, iphone, bb10 and qnx, etc..
Squeak people are and have been involved in all sorts of projects like this. But I have to add that one of the remarkable things about Squeak is its ability to run identically on a wide range of platforms, regardless of hardware and operating system.
Also if this is the wrong mailing list, can you point me at the correct mailing list for this discussion.
This is the right place to get acquainted. When you have more in-depth questions, you will probably want to ask on the squeak-dev list.
Dave