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by pjmlp 4628 days ago
Niklaus Wirth used his experience with Smalltalk to build the Native Oberon OS.

Where you could get almost a similar experience while using a strong type language, with help of reflection and by having dynamic libraries as the only form of executables.

The System 3 version with its Gadgets toolkit was quite nice.

Sadly another GUI desktop OS that didn't managed to become mainstream.