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@0xabad1dea add "smartwatches that don't display anything unless they are paired with an e-mail ID and a phone number on an app on a phone first". No networked function, fine, but they don't deign to get it to display the time!?

@ntnsndr he wrote strongly and compellingly. Murray Bookchin did too, FWIW.

@Kroc I think projects like Forth and uxn assume that hardware capable of running a typical but minimal OS and a C compiler won't be available for whatever reasons. Embedded computing adjacent. So, you can't complain about their lack of memory allocation etc.

Anything else you want probably can be done on Erlang, for which they nowadays seem to have a new implementation for 32-bit microcontrollers (atomvm).

@citc I see no filter option on a connection.

@liaizon @mikedev old post, I know. I suppose using #Hubzilla's #Zot or nomadic #ActivityPub isn't textcasting because it doesn't build on #RSS or other such base building block? I guess it could be/become textcasting if a subset can be used standalone like a microformat or something?

@rdavidatwell old post, I know. It looks like you didn't get clarifications then. It isn't any clearer yet, but your suspicion that RSS is already it has merit.

I imagine they want applications to use RSS for fetching web pages or its ilk. Nowadays they are about Wordpress supporting some of it.

As @mikedev said in another thread on this, #Hubzilla (and then #Streams and now #Forte) do all of this. But they don't use building blocks like #RSS which may be what makes them not #TextCasting

@Kroc I am not sure it is a simple problem. You need something portable to handle text terminals or graphics, and that is ncurses et al or SDL et al. Can ncurses or SDL be programmed to using, say, Forth? Not even WASM has any real-world interfaces.

"The craft of text editing" by Craig Finseth is said to cover most of the aspects beyond incidentals like UI primitives.

There is the editor e3 written in x86 assrmbler, for an opposite take on simplicity compared to portability.

@Kroc I am not sure it is a simple problem. You need something portable to handle text terminals or graphics, and that is ncurses et al or SDL et al. Can ncurses or SDL be programmed to using, say, Forth? Not even WASM has any real-world interfaces.

"The craft of text editing" by Craig Finseth is said to cover most of the aspects beyond incidentals like UI primitives.

There is the editor e3 written in x86 assrmbler, for an opposite take on simplicity compared to portability.

@alex right. @mikedev wrote about he learnt playing right-handed guitars left-handed, by turning them upside down and the other way round. The pioneering Indian-style guitarist, Susmit Sen, is self-taught.

@rachel I have tried jtx Board in the past (diary, notes, tasks, calendar sync'ed over standard protocols). I drifted away to plaintext-based org-mode apps, so that is not a minus against jtx board. https://jtx.techbee.at/

@blaue_Fledermaus have you tried the material at https://metalevel.at ?

@ccrraaiigg @rivercityrandom aside from JS, I think what you describe has been called tree-shaking and has been available in commercial Smalltalks.
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