Post #4249967
2026-07-30 16:52 UTC
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
I very much am interested in looking OS designs beyond #Unix.
For instance I felt a real need for a different programming interface, OS and filesystem while I was doing research. I thought I wanted a #Lisp Machine comeback(hence title of the blog post below). But after research, I found the precise term to be "residential style developement". Below is me blog post:
https://far.chickenkiller.com/computing/do-i-need-a-lisp-machine-comeback/
I have also seen other software developers complaining about storage interface in Operating Systems and programming languages. For instance, here's a quote from Viktor who develops #Marginalia search engine complaining about this:
> This is mostly a post to complain about something > that chafes. I wish there was a programming language (ideally several) that acknowledged that computers have hard drives, not just a processor, RAM and other_devices[].
His blog post is here:
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/53-better-hard-drive-metaphor/
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@iogrt@functional.cafe 2026-07-30 17:49
@farooqkz@mastodon.bsd.cafe Interesting post, I'm also into "residential style development". Smalltalk is probably the biggest environment that embraced this. I've also seen it re-emerge somewhat in the Unison programming language As for your scripting needs, nushell has served me well, much less painful to work with than POSIX. I don't know if it fits your specific need though