[schmichael]

> I don't get why there is no way to edit apps live through the operating system.

I learned how to program on an Apple IIe which had a key sequence to drop to a BASIC prompt and allow manipulating the running program (if it was written in BASIC, which many were). My first programming was hacking my highscores over my brother's.

Then when the web came about in the 90s there was View Source. No one minimized, much less compiled or compressed CSS and Javascript (when they first came out). Web "apps" were rudimentary, but extremely hackable. You could copy and paste locally and hack to your heart's content.

The accessibility is what made programming incredible fun and alluring to me. I'm happy that there are many systems carrying on these ideals today, but I wish there were far more.