Ah neat, Dynamicland has a new intro video (well, new as of August, 2024) where Bret Victor explains the idea of communal computing that Dynamicland has co-created as a proof of concept as well as Realtalk, the programming paradigm that Dynamicland uses.

This video is probably the best representation of what Dynamicland is, without being spatially present and able to interactively co-create with others in the physical space and with others that I have seen so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q9r-AEzRMA

I only visited the physical space in Oakland once and I guess since the pandemic, maybe it doesn't exist where it did previously? (checks website, apparently they are working on building a new space in Berkeley, California for "communal science" at present: https://dynamicland.org/2024/The_communal_science_lab.pdf) I remain fascinated by the potential of such things and hope to see such paradigms become more widespread.

To me, Dynamicland was way cooler than the sorts of interfaces Minority Report showed on screen through the wonders of Hollywood "magic" (and a big special effects budget).

IIRC, even though Dynamicland have their own programming language paradigm Realtalk; the core kernel was implemented in Lua? It seems as if Realtalk-2024 is maybe looking to shed its previous prototype bootstrapping languages and become self hosting? (More about that here: https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/#Is_Realtalk_a_programming_language)

Regardless, super amazing stuff! Probably the coolest tech I have seen in decades. It's difficult for me to get excited about a lot of the stuff I see, but Dynamicland was actually awesome, not just a "gee whiz" tech demo.

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