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So far I've tested Teliva on Linux, Mac OS X and OpenBSD; it should also work
on other flavors of BSD, WSL on Windows, etc. with only minor modifications.
## What else can it do?
Anything! Some more sample apps to try out:
* Conway's Game of Life, as an example of an animated local app.
```
src/teliva life.tlv
```
[video](https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107277755421024772)
* A viewer for [LiChess TV](https://lichess.org/tv), as an example of
animation and accessing a remote API over a network.
```
src/teliva chesstv.tlv
```
[video](https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107319684018301051)
* A browser for the [Gemini protocol](https://gemini.circumlunar.space).
```
src/teliva gemini.tlv
```
[video](https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107489728557201145)
These are just a start. The sky is the limit.
## So, just a programming language, then?
There's one big difference with other programming languages: Teliva apps are
sandboxed like a browser. Most languages assume the fiction that the person
running a program trusts all the code in the program. This assumption hasn't
been valid since a decade after the Unix big bang, if then. Teliva takes on
the reality that apps can get complex and use code written by strangers. In
response, Teliva tries to always summarize for you what the program you're
running is trying to do, and to ask you before a random app tries to do
something sensitive. Permissions you grant a Teliva app will be _flexible_ and
_easy to understand_. Browsers and mobile apps today tend to make you choose
between those two properties.
Sandboxing is still in progress. It isn't yet safe to run untrusted Teliva
apps you download from the internet. (Fortunately you're unlikely to run into
any such apps.)
## Isn't this just an IDE?
There's one big difference: these apps are not intended to be runnable outside
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Teliva is the Tamil root for ‘clear’. Very much aspirational.
## Other apps to try out
* Conway's Game of Life, as an example of an animated local app.
```
src/teliva life.tlv
```
[video](https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107277755421024772)
* A viewer for [LiChess TV](https://lichess.org/tv), as an example of
animation and accessing a remote API over a network.
```
src/teliva chesstv.tlv
```
[video](https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107319684018301051)
* A browser for the [Gemini protocol](https://gemini.circumlunar.space).
```
src/teliva gemini.tlv
```
[video](https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107489728557201145)
## Feedback
[Most appreciated.](http://akkartik.name/contact)