Then do it somewhere else and point here, please?
Another comment mentioned version control, which is a very important thing to get right, and I don't know how I'd diff two Self workspaces, for example...
Not old enough to have lived through what you said, but old enough to have noticed the ripples of "what could have been". Plan9. Lisp Machines. etc. So I'm also looking forward to your much-needed show-and-tell post!