And the foundation of one of the very first memory safe systems programming languages, with automatic resource management, using a mix of reference counting with a cycle collector, Cedar.
Mesa also provided the very first IDE experience for strongly typed languages, with code completion, typo correction, dynamic code loading, a REPL, incremental compilation,...
"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4
Mesa also provided the very first IDE experience for strongly typed languages, with code completion, typo correction, dynamic code loading, a REPL, incremental compilation,...
"The Mesa programming environment"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800225.806843
Indeed, so many still catching up to Xerox PARC vision.