BTW is there a SB API for plug-ins as of yet

[john s wolter]

BTW is there a SB API for plug-ins as of yet

 

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Not yet but interesting idea.

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On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 3:18 PM john s wolter <johns...@wolterworks.com> wrote:

BTW is there a SB API for plug-ins as of yet

 

Cheers, John S Wolter, Johnny 10-Shots, Staying Safe, Immune Challenged, Remote/Hybrid Okay

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[john s wolter]

Yes plug-ins & APIs, it's the way M$ DOS (1982) then Windows 95 (1995) built a crowd of dependent software & hardware companies.  APIs can set standards given a popular software platform like Windows.  SB could be both an embedded plug-in or have APIs.  SB APIs could be used internally making refactoring, porting, & programming agnostically internally fairly easily.

SB's design structure could have Object-Oriented APIs for example like Eiffel's function state testing "Design by Contract" concepts or others.  Consider that Android is LINUX where most Apps are programmed with JAVA.  Android has captured a large % portion of the mobile market.  SB is a smaller market today but APIs could expand the range & utility of SB with plugins & APIs.

M$ seems to have another API every week.  SB APIs could support different kinds of encrypted Collections saved locally & automatically synchronized to cloud resources.  APIs can be built into value oriented SB premium versions.  Doing this requires flexible development tools, web centered or not, for applications.

Right now I'm playing with the Zig programming language for cross development environments & platforms.  The Zig language elements clarifies C/C++ got-you issues but includes those compilers & compatible toolchains for those which eases coding migrations & integrations.

Zig adds meaning to the word "Polyglot".  Except the sweat factors are greatly reduced.  Zig includes the ability to produce Web Assemblies for web hybrid desktop applications, partly "native" mobile Apps, & taps into server side cloud resources like different types of databases.

I could imagine fitting Zig with Javascript, JAVA, CLang, Eiffel pure O-O, C# for M$, SQL, & other current languages.  Add those thought to be "dead" with large code bases, & the associated libraries being linkable.  Can you say FORTRAN. COBAL, Scheme, Forth. assembly, Scripting, LUA, Erlang. Actors, Functional, & distributed.

 

History of how we got here : -------------------------------------------------------

Dinosaurs existed 65 million years ago before the Internet.  ARPA emerged from the surviving primordial soup of species & had ideas of data packet communications so the commander & chief could reliably say "FIRE" to the military in the 1970s.

M$ during the 1980s forward, required computer manufacturers of clones of the IBM PCs using IBM's published standards to only use M$-DOS.  It spread everywhere as quickly like rabbits do as Australians already know.

The U.S. Justice Department sued M$ for compelling PC manufactures to only install Windows. M$/IBM PC DOS licensing still remains popular in the Americas.  The strategy worked as the DoJ's restrictions were ineffective during the Bush administration.  Computer & software prices increased once the DOT-com bubble crash faded away, in the early 2000s.

During the early 1990s M$ & IBM had a joint development program for developing OS/2 through OS/2 Warp 4 ending about 1998.  M$ departed IBM under the contract taking with it the multitasking core later the core of Windows NT/2000.  All that a bit of history during which open source projects like LINUX began to spread & a herd of Internet Standards poured out to a public storm of automation of the office & industry.

Thus here we are today.

I still have a booting & running OS/2 Warp 4 32-bit system.  The SOM - OMG concepts desktop is still light years ahead of recent Windows' desktops pasted over with confusing feature sets.  This OS/2 Warp 4 system was used to develop sales management, fulfillment, importing approvals, delivery, & inspections software for the wholesale level of fresh produce trading throughout the Americas, SE Pacific, & Southeast Asia.

Now much more play time with the Zig programming sandbox.