[networked]

> How come a graphics powered REPL is less capable than a window that pretends to be a tty from the 1970's?

I mean the Smalltalk transcript and its capabilities alone, not Smalltalk as a whole. The transcript apparently just logs plain text; xterm supports color and text formatting like bold and italic. I'm guessing that, per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058849, you'd want fancy text displayed separately in the GUI.

> as for Powershell remoting, no need for VM when Powershell nowadays is written in modern portable .NET.

It looks like multiplatform PowerShell remoting uses SSH: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/secur.... You'd get a VM to use WinRM.

[anthk]

The transcript on Smalltalk is a bad point when the environment itself (the object browser) it what matters in the end. You already have a logical browser far superior to boldted pipes under XTerm. Even 9front has a ndb(1) tool (not just useful for network settings) which can be reused as a small text database a la GNU recutils.

With rio windows I get an actual text stream to copy and paste (and grep and wahtnot), not the text, terminal control codes for bold and colour and often DEC decorations such as the ones in Nethack for walls.