Self-hosted systemgrass
This is a semi-public garden page — a draft, left open on purpose.End-user ProgrammingA vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
The lineage of Smalltalk, Squeak, and Pharo takes this idea to its furthest: if a system is fully written in itself (sometimes called “self-hosted”), the user can change absolutely anything about the system. ... self-hosted systems can inspect and change anything on the fly. They are living systems.
