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> ...felt a need for a software tool that would help me do things like — plot charts, app prototyping, create dashboards/GUI’s for my personal projects etc. I j

> ...felt a need for a software tool that would help me do things like — plot charts, app prototyping, create dashboards/GUI’s for my personal projects etc. I just needed “some place” to write my code, build small projects or test new ideas. To much of my own surprise, I could not find an easy way to do so. to the author: Congrats on building and delivering on what's a pretty significant undertaking. That being said, Smalltalk has had the capabilities you were looking for, for ages, and the tools are incredibly polished because they've been around for so long. On a related note Glamorous Toolkit https://gtoolkit.com/ https://gtoolkit.com/ takes those capabilities and points them at development itself allowing you to use them to help figure out what your code and data are / are doing. This is an interesting project, but it's just the beginning of recreating what already exists in Pharo smalltalk. https://pharo.org/ https://pharo.org/

mkl 7y ago
That would involve starting from scratch learning a new language and framework, and projects could no longer graduate to be web apps, or benefit from the much larger Javascript/web ecosystem.
nishkalkashyap 7y ago
I would disagree. What Quark offers is much more. You don't have to learn a new language. You have access to this massive javascript ecosystem. And it has out of the box support for React.js, Vue.js, Typescript and toolings like webpack that developers love.
- nimnio 7y ago
  > You don't have to learn a new language ... javascript ecosystem ... Vue.js ... You seem to be assuming that everyone is a javascript developer and wants to work in it.
  - plondon514 7y ago
    No, but not everyone is a smalltalk developer either.
  - anton96 7y ago
    Sad thing is that is harder to find documentation for smalltalk thant for javascript. I was very intersted in smalltalk at first but I had a very hard time to find somehing above the Transcript object example. Heck even glamourous toolkit doesn't have it's documentation on its website either while I could found Quark's api doc right away.That's sad.

mkl 7y ago

That would involve starting from scratch learning a new language and framework, and projects could no longer graduate to be web apps, or benefit from the much larger Javascript/web ecosystem.

nishkalkashyap 7y ago

I would disagree. What Quark offers is much more. You don't have to learn a new language. You have access to this massive javascript ecosystem. And it has out of the box support for React.js, Vue.js, Typescript and toolings like webpack that developers love.

nimnio 7y ago
> You don't have to learn a new language ... javascript ecosystem ... Vue.js ... You seem to be assuming that everyone is a javascript developer and wants to work in it.
- plondon514 7y ago
  No, but not everyone is a smalltalk developer either.
- anton96 7y ago
  Sad thing is that is harder to find documentation for smalltalk thant for javascript. I was very intersted in smalltalk at first but I had a very hard time to find somehing above the Transcript object example. Heck even glamourous toolkit doesn't have it's documentation on its website either while I could found Quark's api doc right away.That's sad.