d-mason

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by d-mason 11mo ago
I am working on a ~15K loc project in Zig and have been for over 3 years. Most times a new version comes out there is nothing to do. A half dozen times I've spent as long as half a day updating references to the standard library. There
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by d-mason 4y ago
I would say the same thing (or more exactly, the dual) from a Smalltalk perspective: I just want to send a message to an object, I shouldn't have to figure out what function to call or what to parenthesize. The problem people get into
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by d-mason 5y ago
Pharo, like its siblings Cuis, Squeak, and NewSpeak runs on a VM called Open Smalltalk. It is written in a stylized version of Smalltalk so can be debugged with the tandard Smalltalk tools (i.e. you can have the modified VM you're work
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by d-mason 5y ago
Here is another web application made with http://pharojs.org which runs on Pharo https://covid.cs.ryerson.ca/compare/
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by d-mason 8y ago
Development is entirely via the most integrated GUI you've ever experienced. It runs on MacOS, Windows, and Linux. For deployment, you can run it headless. You can also deploy as Javascript for Node/Browsers via a tool called Phar
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by d-mason 8y ago
One of the key words in that statement was "actively developed". Cincom, Instantiations, and GemTalk have some great people working on them, but Pharo7 had 75 different people contributing - including probably almost as many full-
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by d-mason 8y ago
The small size of methods is a feature, not a bug :-). And this partly explains why the lack of [your favourite editor] bindings isn't so important. You don't typically spend as much time as you're used to typing in code - an
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by d-mason 8y ago
It is an alien world.... but a better one by most measures. I come from Emacs (20+ years when I first encountered the Smalltalk IDE), and find aspects of code editing irritating sometimes, but the overall value of the IDE more than pays for