The original refactoring browser/editor was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge it was later Open Sourced as Eclipse but it predates it by over a decade.
I don't think Eclipse is Open Source Visual Age for Java. Both came from IBM but...
When the IBM rep cam to our company explaining the change he explained what changed and 3 of the points were why I used VAJ and Eclipse did not have them (at the time 10 years later it nearly had them).
VAJ worked with an included JRE that allowed you to edit code as it ran.
VAJ included a GUI builder
VAJ was organised around code structure and not files e.g. you chose packages and classes and methods and not by files.
> VisualAge for Java is based on an extended Smalltalk virtual machine which executes both Smalltalk and Java byte codes. Java natives were actually implemented in Smalltalk.[6]
> VisualAge Micro Edition, which supports development of embedded Java applications and cross system development, is a reimplementation of the IDE in Java. This version of VisualAge morphed into the Eclipse Framework.
While interesting (thanks a lot for sharing this great resource), it seems to mainly focus on just the UX/UI aspects, while ignoring the input method, they all depend on mouse and/or keyboard.
Is there any similar resources for more varied input methods? Like joysticks, custom keyboards, voice or similar?
light-pen, pen-to-text
foot pedals
keyboards with two wheels
text-to-speech (os native)
gloves and 2D mocap-like cam capture of sign language
Neuralink.com
I would love to see a demo of SK8. I've never been able to get it to work in any of the classic mac emulators. If anyone out there has experience with this I think the community would benefit from some videos
