justbeast

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   by justbeast 4y ago

   This is an interesting start. I have many questions though: 1. Why no public forum or (heavens forfend) a standards body community group, for the spec? 2. For the data model, why not use the excellent ActivityStreams2? The actual data model
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   by justbeast 11y ago

   Nonsense. Hello world code in Pharo / Smalltalk is still a line or two, like in other languages. You're probably referring to the fact that there's an option to deploy the hello world PLUS the VM it runs on, in a single packa
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   by justbeast 11y ago

   Source control works similarly as to how it does with other languages. (The modified binary image thing was never the only, or the main, option).
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   by justbeast 11y ago

   Ugh, I agree with zak_mc_kracken. The Pharo community needs to knock it off, with that kind of arguments. (And I say that, being a part of that community). Pharo is NOT too cool and too well designed for the mainstream. :( It /is/
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   by justbeast 11y ago

   Yes, exactly :) (If you think about it, Java apps like Eclipse and so on, are also a tiny bit strange and non-native. They've come a long way towards blending in with native apps, over the years. But they still feel a bit off, from a n
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   by justbeast 15y ago

   Myself (and a couple others) used JawsJS to do our first Ludum Dare ( http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/ ) entry. It's a great basic framework -- the examples on the site is what sold it for us.