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OberonEmulator
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schierlm / OberonEmulator

OberonEmulator

Project Oberon emulator in JavaScript and Java

4Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
136GitHub stars
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What it is

Project Oberon emulator in JavaScript and Java

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-10-23 16:48:41 UTC to 2023-04-29 08:11:31 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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You would love Oberon, and its derived OSes, Acme UI is based on it. In Oberon, you can select any piece of text and apply a command on it. Commands are public procedures in dynamic modules, so Module.Command will load it if not already loaded, and then execute command. There are a couple of ways to write commands, depending if the act on selected widgets, selected text, selected windows, or if they ask for additional input. http://www.projectoberon.net/ For trying out it emulated on the browser, https://github.com/schierlm/OberonEmulator And how the latest iteration of it, Bluebottle (AOS) with Active Oberon, looks like http://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon&section=com... One of the great things about PowerShell and Windows, is that despite all the warts it has, it allows exactly a similar kind of workflow, with .NET, DLLs and
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COM replacing that Module.Command experience. GNOME and KDE can offer similar workflows, alongside DBUS, and fish shell, however people seem more keen in keeping the UNIX experience of yore instead of going down that route.
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