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Reminds me of old 80ies Smalltalk environments.

* everything is an object

* image-based persistence

I believe you cannot much traction in 2019 by merely claiming benefits of being object-oriented. These times are long gone.

The basic ideas of OO(extension by inheritance, coupling data and code=poor concurrency, wrong abstractions = expensive rewrites, wrong incapsulation = impossibility to change behavior) turned out problematic in use.

I'm still waiting for OS that positions itself to be "100% async" - every operation/event is a future/promise/callback, everything can be hooked, is progress-trackable and cancellable. That what I can stand behind.

Opportunity lost, you could have gotten an WP 8.x device.

Reminds me more of the capability based OSs, like KeyKOS, EROS, and Coyotos.

Smalltak too

лисп мачине

A random class of russian language.

Transliteration of latin-based word from English to Russian works differently. Word "machine" creeped into russian noble class through latin texts, so it was "махина" (х to this day transliterates to "kh"), but later on the french influence altered the word to "машина" (ш is pronounced as french "ch" or "sh" in english. The first word is still in the lexicon with the meaning of "a giant/huge object".