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		pipeline_peak on Dec 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012) “ We saw the invention of the fricking World Wide Web on NeXTSTEP” I can’t stand when people bring this up with such pride. Like the web couldn’t have came on SPARC or anything other than the glorious Steve Jobs cube.

pjmlp on Dec 23, 2024 [–]

Probably not, as it was also a matter of available tooling.

Rails, as concept, existed in Tcl and Python, AOLServer, Vignette, our Safelayer, Zope,...

Yet it took Ruby, and a cool demo, to put that idea into world scale motion.

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