Thread 106466826

Imagine a world where:
>don't like the color of a program like a browser
>open it's source code in two clicks
>change it
>also move one of the bars to the side
>immediately takes effect

The technology is there, only thing impeding this is
>AHHH DON'T THEME MY PROGRAM THINK OF DESIGNERINOS
>AHHHHHH IT'S MEANT TO BE A PROPRIETARY EXPERIENCE
>AHHH IT HAS TO BE COMPILED WITH A THOUSAND PERFORMANCE TRICKS
>AHHH IT HAS TO BE WRITTEN QUICKLY SO SPAGHETTI IS FINE

That already exists, go mess with ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css if you wanna theme your apps.

>>106466843
Sure, but not everything uses gtk and you can't modify it's behavior

>>106466850
Then open up qt6ct and add a stylesheet.

>>106466884
I mean total control, not just a stylesheet
Software that can be easily changed like free software originally intended, only thing like that I heard of was Emacs

>>106466908
you can use chat gpt to modify the theme and recompile I guess.

>>106466826 (OP)
https://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
We had that shit 53 years ago ago.

>>106466826 (OP)
I could do that with suckless

>>106466992
suck more

>>106466826 (OP)
Imagine a world where:
>Your CLI is a real programming language with full autocompletion
>No distinction between CLI and GUI, the CLI has inline diagrams, images, trees, buttons
>Everything is an object with structured data
>Press a single key on your keyboard to show help depending on what you're doing
>Rich, graphical Wikipedia-like hyperlink documentation for everything about the operating system, always two clicks away
>You can view the source code of any function in a single click
>When a program "crashes", it doesn't exit, but instead pops a debugger with the source, which lets you find what's wrong, fix it on the spot, and continue execution
>Patch or replace any OS component at runtime, including drivers and what would normally be in the "kernel"
>Recompile functions instead of entire programs
>Your programs are not "programs" but an extension of the OS itself
>No boundaries between any services or programs, any function can call any other function.
>No libraries, static vs dynamic linking, executables, shared objects. Everything is just functions.
>No overhead of starting a new program since there is no such thing as a program. Everything is just functions.
>All of this, with zero performance losses due to specialized hardware
This world used to exist. The OS was called Genera. The hardware was called Lisp machines.
There's a reason people joke so much about Emacs being an OS. Because it used to be one.
But then x86 happened. It was cheaper and faster. So no one cared about Genera. And the company (Symbolics) went bankrupt.
We lost it all.

>>106468606
I feel like LISP is to programming language what hieroglyphs are to language today
It didn't gain widespread usage because it's too hard for dumb people