Over on twitter, Tim Caswell mentioned, "I think high-level scripting language on top of something like rust.zero would make for an amazing OS." and that set me off a bit. Twitter isn't a great place to write a reasoned discussion of programming languages or implementation strategies, so let's take a shot at it here.

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Today I stumbled across some very interesting projects by Nickolay Platonov which I'd like to discuss in an OLPC context.

I've been hacking away at TurtleScript fueled partly by a drive for minimalism: a small system is a learnable system. To that end, the language is based on Douglas Crockford's "Simplified JavaScript" (as recognized by this top ( Read more... )

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