Series of four articles describing programming language and environment of the Self lang.

All four episodes were originally published in the Czech language: 📂Seriál o Selfu.

Episodes

📄 Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment) (@2019年05月19日)

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.

📄 Environment and the programming language Self (part two; language) (@2019年06月17日)

In this episode, we'll look into the language itself and also into more interesting parts of the standard library.

📄 Environment and the programming language Self (part three; debugger, transporter and problems) (@2019年07月04日)

This episode is mostly about things that did not fit into other episodes. We'll have a more detailed look at the debugger, the transporter and some disadvantages of Self as a language, the environment but also of the principles of using prototype programming.

📄 Environment and the programming language Self (part four; community, history, future and metaphysics) (@2019年08月23日)

This episode is about the community around the Self language, its history, future and also possible consequences brought by Self.

Related articles

📄 Self mail conference in .mbox (@2016年06月09日)

Informations about how (and where) to get a archive file from the Self mail conference.

📄 Lessons learnt from the Self archive (@2016年06月15日)

I’ve spent 26 days reading 26 years of messages from the Self mail conference archive. Here is what I’ve learned.

📄 Improvement proposals (@2016年06月18日)

I would like to spur discussion about structure of the project and also about the community, its organization and knowledge bases. I believe that this discussion is really important for the future of Self development.

tinySelf

In my spare time, I am also working on a custom Self implementation in Java and previously in Python. If you are interested, here is a whole category with articles about it: 📂tinySelf.