I still find it unnecessary that separate languages are made for an OS shell. Why can’t it just be a REPL for a programming language the programs were written in? Even more ideal, the same language the OS was written in?
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I’m describing a Lisp Machine, aren’t I?
@ilovecomputers yes you are. As I understand it, Swift was originally pitched to be what you are describing
@Mulderc I remember Swift started off with a live coding environment with Xcode Playgrounds, but I didn’t know it was originally planned for OS development.
@ilovecomputers Yeah there are interviews with Chris Lattner where he talks about his idea for Swift domination. Essentially it should be usable from simple scripting to servers and core OS development. Sounds like it has drifted a bit from that visions though.
@Mulderc maybe one day Apple will get back on that (or already is in secret). Swift fundamentally doesn’t use a VM after all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)?wprov=sfti1#Memory_management
@ilovecomputers Swift is in the Kernel https://blog.calif.io/p/apple-internals-swift-in-the-kernel
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