medley VS saga

Medley, open source emulator for Xerox Interlisp-D machines: https://github.com/Interlisp/medley

Your concept looks nice, it reminds me a bit of the Lisperati: https://www.hackster.io/news/the-lisperati1000-is-a-cyberdec...

So, did you consider Lisp or maybe Smalltalk? Plan 9 or Inferno might also be options.

Plan 9 comes in different variants, the "classic" one (with a Raspberry Pi port by Richard Miller) or 9front, an Inferno porting tutorial can be found at https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi

Lisp and Smalltalk can run with or without Linux underneath, e.g. on the Raspberry Pi.

Bare-metal Lisp is available with interim: http://interim-os.com

Finally, bare-metal Smalltalk is available in my crosstalk system: https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk

Of course, Lisp and Smalltalk can also run hosted under Linux, e.g. using Squeak (https://squeak.org), Pharo (https://pharo.org) or InterLisp (https://github.com/Interlisp/medley).

Or - a crazy idea - build an emacs-only machine. That would be fun! :)

Also available online at https://interlisp.org/. Or follow the instructions at: https://github.com/interlisp/medley/releases

the language analysis of https://github.com/Interlisp/medley

Medley Documentation. We've been updating the online documentation at least for getting started -- instructions on Running in various contexts and Building and Using.

Interlisp for some ideas on supporting rapid prototyping and a historical perspective.

Of historical interest was Interlisp-D as a system that did structure editing and version management. it was at the beginning of time so getting it to work again as a practical development environment is a lot of work.

https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/issues/533

If you have more questions check out Discussions · Interlisp/medley (github.com)

I spent a while working on a generalized version control system when I graduated two years ago. It was called Saga [1]. Saga - get it? The name was the best bit.

It allowed you to specify a “file representation format,” and then used some messy 2d-and-above longest-common subsequence matching algo [3] I can up with to diff the files, and merge them if you wanted. It was a lovely learning experience I tried to pass off as a startup, and got two of my friends involved as cofounders.

From there, we tried to focus (generalized version control is really hard… technically and otherwise), and pivoted to version control for Excel spreadsheets. At one point we had branching and merging working for XLSX files. But as we began to discover what version of Excel customers used, things got a lot less fun. That + lack of interest led to another pivot.

Anyways, for the past 1 year (just passed!) we’ve been building Mito [3] with our learnings from all those spreadsheet folks we spent time above. Mito is effectively a spreadsheet within your Python environment. It’s absolutely still getting off the ground, but we’re pretty proud of the value we’re delivering to users currently!

[1] https://github.com/saga-vcs/saga

[2] https://github.com/saga-vcs/saga/blob/master/saga/base_file/...

[3] https://trymito.io/hn