Post #3530737

2026-07-02 06:42 UTC

@jdboyd@social.treehouse.systems @slava@mathstodon.xyz They’re all in the same mindset of Alto Smalltalk, which controlled the entire computer. Unfortunately, a lot of the power of Smalltalk (the image abstraction, live editing) comes from everything being in Smalltalk, which makes things like talking to a relational database a thing that immediately hurts. I used to work on this before concluding that the kind of safe interoperability between high-level languages suitable for end-user programming and large bodies of existing C/C++ code required new hardware. Since 2012, I’ve been working on making that new hardware a reality.

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@jdboyd@social.treehouse.systems 2026-07-02 08:56

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @slava@mathstodon.xyz Pointing out SQLite probably wasn't fair due to being a C library. I've seen some talks posted about CHERIoT at places like media.ccc.de, but all I recall hearing about it was safety and security. I don't think I recall hearing anything about how it helps improve interoperability, enables next generation of programming languages, or gives programmers new ways to express themselves. Are there talks or papers I should have been paying better attention to? Since I saw there is now a FreeRTOS compatibility layer, that made me think to look if micropython was ported yet, and I found an ACM paper about that, so I will at least have to read that one.

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