Someone sent me this thread so I could answer, and I do agree. I for one think uxn is trivial, it was directly inspired by the VM running Another World and created to address a similar need. It's not especially fast, or welcoming to non-programmers, it was a way for my partner and I to keep participating in this fantastic universe that is software development, even once our access to reliable hardware was becoming uncertain. It's meant to be approachable to people in a similar situation and related interests, and possibly inspire people to look into assembly and stack machines -- but it has no lofty goals beyond that. We're humbled that it may have inspired a handful of developers to consider what a virtual machine designed to tackle their own needs might look like.
A lot of our work is owed to Wirth's fantastic documentation on Oberon, to the p-machine and to pascal. Niklaus' works has influenced us in ways that it would be very unlikely that we could pass forward. I'm sad to hear of Nicklaus' passing, there are people who inspire me in similar ways, that are alive today and that I look up to for inspiration, but to me, Wirth's work will remain irreplaceable. :)
Someone sent me this thread so I could answer, and I do agree. I for one think uxn is trivial, it was directly inspired by the VM running Another World and created to address a similar need. It's not especially fast, or welcoming to non-programmers, it was a way for my partner and I to keep participating in this fantastic universe that is software development, even once our access to reliable hardware was becoming uncertain. It's meant to be approachable to people in a similar situation and related interests, and possibly inspire people to look into assembly and stack machines -- but it has no lofty goals beyond that. We're humbled that it may have inspired a handful of developers to consider what a virtual machine designed to tackle their own needs might look like.
A lot of our work is owed to Wirth's fantastic documentation on Oberon, to the p-machine and to pascal. Niklaus' works has influenced us in ways that it would be very unlikely that we could pass forward. I'm sad to hear of Nicklaus' passing, there are people who inspire me in similar ways, that are alive today and that I look up to for inspiration, but to me, Wirth's work will remain irreplaceable. :)
-- Devine
http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/devlog