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A while back I backed an IndieGoGo project dedicated to bringing Smalltalk to the JVM: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/redline-smalltalk-v1-0 http://www.indie

A while back I backed an IndieGoGo project dedicated to bringing Smalltalk to the JVM: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/redline-smalltalk-v1-0 http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/redline-smalltalk-v1-0 I really hope this project pans out, because I would love to be able to program in Smalltalk for practical purposes. (In fact, even the thought of being able to write a single application in both Lisp (Clojure) and Smalltalk (Redline) is making me giddy. We're still a long ways from this dream, but perhaps it'll be possible one day.)

zeckalpha 13y ago
You could also do http://amber-lang.net/ http://amber-lang.net/ and ClojureScript, no?
endlessvoid94 13y ago
It is cool, but redline doesn't have the environment of smalltalk, just the language. Which, arguably, misses a LOT of the point of using smalltalk.
- fusiongyro 13y ago
  That isn't true. http://www.redline.st/discover/is-it-smalltalk.html http://www.redline.st/discover/is-it-smalltalk.html
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    - fusiongyro 13y ago
      Feels like you didn't read the page I linked. You can do all of this: "navigate object graphs, edit them while the program runs, inspect UI elements and modify their behavior interactively, and so on." It just isn't persisted to an image. The OP is implying that Redline is just Smalltalk skin on a Java pig. That's not true, but if your goalposts for Smalltalk are "it must be Pharo" then, yeah, it isn't Pharo. This is basically the same unhelpful puritanical attitude that left Lisp basically dead from the end of the Lisp machine until PG started talking it up. It doesn't have to be the same to be good, or better than a lot of alternatives, or to count as a real Smalltalk. For what it's worth, not having Morphic is a huge win IMO. A UI built on something else that attempted to achieve the original goals of Morphic but with, say, a little actual OO design and architecture, would be way better than that disgusting, unlearnable mess.
      - aaronbrethorst 13y ago
        > Redline is just Smalltalk skin on a Java pig. This is a seriously weird mixed metaphor. Normally the phrase is "lipstick on the pig," which makes a reasonable amount of sense: ostensibly women wear lipstick to look prettier. Pigs are ugly and won't look prettier even when they're wearing a prettying agent. Meanwhile, there's the term 'pigskin,' which is a term for an American football. Finally, pigs already have skins. This phrase conjures up some sort of horrible notions of the serial killer Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs for me. Very upsetting.
        fusiongyro 13y ago
        What are you, the metaphor compiler? Do I need a fucking permit to write colorfully?
        nsxwolf 13y ago
        How does anyone downvote "What are you, the metaphor compiler?", regardless of context?
DanielRibeiro 13y ago
Redlines smalltalk on the JVM is cool. You can also use Smalltalk on the web browser through Amber: http://amber-lang.net/ http://amber-lang.net/

zeckalpha 13y ago

You could also do http://amber-lang.net/ http://amber-lang.net/ and ClojureScript, no?

endlessvoid94 13y ago

It is cool, but redline doesn't have the environment of smalltalk, just the language. Which, arguably, misses a LOT of the point of using smalltalk.

fusiongyro 13y ago
That isn't true. http://www.redline.st/discover/is-it-smalltalk.html http://www.redline.st/discover/is-it-smalltalk.html
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  - fusiongyro 13y ago
    Feels like you didn't read the page I linked. You can do all of this: "navigate object graphs, edit them while the program runs, inspect UI elements and modify their behavior interactively, and so on." It just isn't persisted to an image. The OP is implying that Redline is just Smalltalk skin on a Java pig. That's not true, but if your goalposts for Smalltalk are "it must be Pharo" then, yeah, it isn't Pharo. This is basically the same unhelpful puritanical attitude that left Lisp basically dead from the end of the Lisp machine until PG started talking it up. It doesn't have to be the same to be good, or better than a lot of alternatives, or to count as a real Smalltalk. For what it's worth, not having Morphic is a huge win IMO. A UI built on something else that attempted to achieve the original goals of Morphic but with, say, a little actual OO design and architecture, would be way better than that disgusting, unlearnable mess.
    - aaronbrethorst 13y ago
      > Redline is just Smalltalk skin on a Java pig. This is a seriously weird mixed metaphor. Normally the phrase is "lipstick on the pig," which makes a reasonable amount of sense: ostensibly women wear lipstick to look prettier. Pigs are ugly and won't look prettier even when they're wearing a prettying agent. Meanwhile, there's the term 'pigskin,' which is a term for an American football. Finally, pigs already have skins. This phrase conjures up some sort of horrible notions of the serial killer Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs for me. Very upsetting.
      - fusiongyro 13y ago
        What are you, the metaphor compiler? Do I need a fucking permit to write colorfully?
        nsxwolf 13y ago
        How does anyone downvote "What are you, the metaphor compiler?", regardless of context?

DanielRibeiro 13y ago

Redlines smalltalk on the JVM is cool. You can also use Smalltalk on the web browser through Amber: http://amber-lang.net/ http://amber-lang.net/