Acceptable in the 80s - Revisiting Microworlds
summary
Claims a hybrid visual programming environment running in the browser that treats the desktop as a malleable space and composes small reusable components. Implements window-splitting, saved macros, scriptable connections and IPC so a scraped web table becomes numeric data via a sculpt process. Demonstrates binding to hardware (an imp microcontroller) to drive traffic lights from the same JavaScript context. The demos run live and the physical lights light up.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:02Window Organisation
- 3:15Big Applications
- 3:41Text Editor
- 5:58Macros
- 7:12Window Manager
- 9:12Reinvention
- 10:37Common frustration
- 14:15Sharing
- 16:03Why the 80s
- 16:52Oberon
- 18:03Goal
- 19:57Why JS
- 21:40Demo
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