{"id":91607,"date":"2025-08-27T16:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/classic-psion-fan-releases-poc-language-server-for-opl-the-register\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:39:39","slug":"classic-psion-fan-releases-poc-language-server-for-opl-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/classic-psion-fan-releases-poc-language-server-for-opl-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Psion fan releases PoC language server for OPL \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Classic computing fanatic Colin Hoad has launched a present to anybody who fondly remembers Psion’s basic EPOC-based palmtops and their Open Programming Language (OPL): a language server which brings trendy quality-of-life options to the OPL programmer, no matter their improvement atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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“OPL being a reasonably previous (I wish to suppose ‘venerable’) language, there may be scant help for it in any trendy IDE, together with [Microsoft] VS Code,” Hoad writes in an introduction<\/a> to the venture forward of its first public launch.<\/p>\n

“After some illuminating chats about this on the Psion Discord server, Alex Brown seeded the concept in my head of writing a language server for OPL utilizing the now extensively adopted Language Server Protocol (LSP). This felt like a meaty venture I might actually get my tooth into, and which might additionally function a possibility to increase my very own programming skills.”<\/p>\n

Psion’s calculator-style Organizer household of PDAs was reasonably profitable in trade and enterprise following its launch in 1984, nevertheless it was the clamshell-style Collection collection and its EPOC working system which received it hearts and minds within the client sector. Its later, bigger gadgets – together with the delicate Psion Collection 7 and the Psion netBook, which might see Dell<\/a> and Intel<\/a> ) submitting and winning<\/a> lawsuits in opposition to the corporate and its claims to the time period “netbook” as a trademark – weren’t fairly as profitable, and the corporate exited the buyer market earlier than being sold to Motorola Solutions<\/a> as a shadow of its former self.<\/p>\n

Again in 2017, Reg<\/em> readers voted Psion’s Collection 5 household because the device they’d most like to see revived<\/a>, a want which was partially granted a yr later when Planet Computing launched the Collection 5MX-inspired Gemini clamshell smartphone<\/a> – with a well-known although not as cleverly hinged keyboard and customized apps designed to imitate a number of the options of EPOC, operating atop Android initially and later the choice of a personalized Linux distribution. For a lot of Psion followers, although, it is unique or nothing – albeit with modernizations together with a custom add-on for Wi-Fi connectivity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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