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Mar 7, 2021 at 03:25
It's a little surprising how few programming languages have first-party/official LSP implementations. It's such a valuable part of the user's experience! (cf Smalltalk where the environment is often more important than the syntax or libraries.)

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Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment)
Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment)
I bring you a message about a language that has been at the birth of many others, but almost no one knows it. A rumor of a graphical environment offering options like no other, but almost no one using it. I also bring information about a virtual machine supporting reflection almost to infinity, reaching almost half of the operating power of C in numerical calculations in its time, yet today forgotten.
Jun 9, 2024 at 20:47
The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices:
Why bother with Scripting?