Digging up answers to a new persons questions about the Self programming language and environment reminds me how cool the environment was at the time - and still is.
JSON parser in Mango - the parser generator for Self gist.github.com/doublec/7132119
Paper on Mango, the parser generator for Self bibliography.selflanguage.org/mango.html
Multiple users in a Self world, including Java applet clients bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/09/16/mul…
A Java VM and partial runtime in Self - compiles Java bytecode to Self (PDF) bluishcoder.co.nz/self/97-pep.pdf
A mailing list post on using the Java VM in Self groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sel…
A screencast I did of using Self to build a bank account object bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/11/18/dem…
And another screencast on exporting Self objects to source code bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/11/19/exp…
Attack of the Clones - design patterns in Self crpit.com/abstracts/CRPI…
Collaborative debugging in Self when your shared world breaks web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieber…
Self has a simple web browser. It's old code, and HTTP 1.0 compliant so no JS, CSS or HTTPS. But it works. Some examples of it here bluishcoder.co.nz/2009/07/27/dis…
Craig Chambers developed a prototype based programming language called Cecil. It had multiple dispatch, multimethods and optional static type checking. The Self source includes a Cecil implementation github.com/russellallen/s…
There's a Smalltalk compatibility layer for Self. It implements many of the Smalltalk development UI elements too merlintec.com/download/mario…
The Self VM is written in C++. There was a project to implement a Self VM in Self called Klein. The source and documentation is available but unfortunately was not completed kleinvm.sourceforge.net
"Towards a Universal Implementation Substrate for Object-Oriented Languages" - a Self paper that covers the Smalltalk and Java implementations in Self as examples of a Self-like system as a universal VM bluishcoder.co.nz/self/substrate…
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