Demo of Mesa/Cedar system, the lesser known system from Xerox ones, written in memory safe systems programming language of the same name, with reference counting and a cycle collector, and those unsafe code blocks.
Replicates the Lisp and Smalltalk development experience, introduces ideas that were inspiration for Oberon Gadgets, OLE and OpenDoc, had networking, file servers, only downside was being single user workstation.
We as industry are still catching up with that experience and overall system safety.
https://youtu.be/z_dt7NG38V4
Replicates the Lisp and Smalltalk development experience, introduces ideas that were inspiration for Oberon Gadgets, OLE and OpenDoc, had networking, file servers, only downside was being single user workstation.
We as industry are still catching up with that experience and overall system safety.