[SoftTalker]

And those old computers (TRS-80, TI/99, Commodore 64, etc) that booted straight to a BASIC prompt were so simple to use. You turn them on, they booted in a few seconds and you were ready to start entering code. The programming environment was also the REPL and the OS shell. You were not distracted by those things being conceptually different. The need to use GOTO/GOSUB and line numbers was limiting but also made the flow of control very clear to a new programmer.

[sitkack]

Imagine if you had that repl experience but you also had searchable documentation and tutorials right there with the ability to either view side by side or hit a function key to bring up documentation about the current symbol?

Imagine a world where ram remained constrained but GBs of flash was basically free (like now), how different computing would look.