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A few notes: a. this is awesome b. the "documentation" link halfway down the homepage goes to an anchor tag that doesn't exist, rather than the actual documen
by asolove 15y ago
A few notes:
a. this is awesome
b. the "documentation" link halfway down the homepage goes to an anchor tag that doesn't exist, rather than the actual documentation page. At first I thought there just were no docs, and I was disappointed.
c. After reading through the docs, I can see how to create cool classes but am not sure how to instantiate them on the page. Is there a Smalltalk image-style system to marshall instances to disc and back? That would be fantastic.
I have so many other ideas for wonderful things this could do. Breakpoints in event handlers to let you change the code without reloading the page. Including less/scss with view classes and live editing of that on the page.
But there are also lots of challenges. To get good performance you will need to have access to lots of front-end-specific tricks, like event delegation, spreading long computations out with timers, etc.
In sum, then, super-exciting, hope to see more docs and details soon, let us know how we can help. Can someone comment on the status of server-side ST frameworks if I wanted to try a small, all-ST webapp?
- bromagosa 15y agoAs to the all-ST webapp, there are three frameworks you may want to check out, these are Seaside, AidaWeb and Iliad. If you allow me to be a bit biased, I'd recommend you to first check Iliad (iliadproject.org/), as IMO it's the one that'll give you the most impressive results in the shortest possible learning time. And I'd work on Pharo (pharo-project.org), as it's the most complete open source and free ST implementation out there. Again, in my humble biased opinion. To get started, check this out: http://www.asmalltalkbytheseaside.com/iliad_en.pdf http://www.asmalltalkbytheseaside.com/iliad_en.pdf These slides are based on a presentation given by Nicolas Petton, Iliad's author, at the 2010 edition of the European Smalltalk Users Group conference. You can watch the whole talk, «Web Development in Iliad», right here: http://esug2010.objectfusion.fr/tuesday.html http://esug2010.objectfusion.fr/tuesday.html Hope it helped! :)
- asolove 15y agoThanks!