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* It must be self hosted on it's own source code repository.
* It must be self hosted on it's own source code repository.
* It must be be under a new open source license that ensures our core principal is not violated by other programmers' forks.
* It must be be under a new open source license that ensures our core principal is not violated by other programmers' forks.
We have an almost pathological focus on minimalism. We want the functionality of any modern IDE with only 100,000 lines of code.
## Core Principles (roughly in order of importance)
## Core Principles (roughly in order of importance)
1. Have a unified execution and authoring environment. Any program must also provide the tool with which it was created and allow itself to be modified. We endeavor to make it as frictionless as possible for a user of a program to understand or modify it. **Anyone using a program can become its programmer within seconds.** We will insist on this via our open source license.
1. Have a unified execution and authoring environment. Any program must also provide the tool with which it was created and allow itself to be modified. We endeavor to make it as frictionless as possible for a user of a program to understand or modify it. **Anyone using a program can become its programmer within seconds.** We will insist on this via our open source license.
1. Anyone can code. Make it easy for anyone to modify any part of the system. Imposing restrictive [encapsulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_programming)) is selfish and elitist.
1. Anyone can code. Make it easy for anyone to modify any part of the system. Imposing restrictive [encapsulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_programming)) is selfish and elitist.
