I've been working on this little project on and off over the past year or so, the idea is to have something akin to manual pages(but built-in), self documenting #uxn roms.
So the outside world can peek at the capabilities of a program, build a kind of documentation, and even evaluate things without running the rom. Right now, it can't do much more than read the icon, program informations and the content of menus, but I'd love at one point to make myself a kind of puppeteer program like the old Macintosh menubar populated from the program resource package.
Babysteps, still kind of cool to see all this in one place. I wrote about my plan last year here:
forum.malleable.systems/t/fear…
The metadata format:
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/metadata.…
Fearless extensibility: Extending THINK Pascal
Pretty cool demo. Are you familiar with Windows’ RC files? I haven’t programmed a Windows GUI in 25 years, but I remember windows and dialogs were created in this declarative language, and I reckon you could in theory extract them from a binary and c…Malleable Systems Forum