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by seandenigris 3y ago
IIRC theming is not yet officially supported but if you search on Discord some users have had reasonable success.
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by seandenigris 3y ago
Yes. That said, it took me a while using it to figure out that one non-obvious key feature here is that “easy” means that they’ve made it cheap enough where one automatically changes their behavior and actually does create ubiquitous custom
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by seandenigris 4y ago
Yikes, that sounds frustrating. Did you download one of the binaries from https://gtoolkit.com/download/ ? Also, what OS are you on? For me, the Mac (both ARM and Intel) binaries have consistently “just worked“ for the
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by seandenigris 4y ago
Ugh, do I fall into that rabbit hole often! The thing with GT, though, is that the cost of creating visualizations is so low - a few seconds - that it’s rarely a distraction
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by seandenigris 4y ago
Wow, I love the idea of using GT for reverse engineering. That would’ve been life-changing for my last experience, where I worked mostly in a hex editor. The context switching and slow feedback cycle were brutal. Documenting my growing und
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by seandenigris 5y ago
The writer couldn’t do something in a new system after 10 minutes of searching, so sure it must be “some kind of weird cult” ;-) Seriously though, I hear them about the lack of UI painter. Many of us have been longing for one but as always
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by seandenigris 6y ago
> Dismissing weak arguments is easy. Try imagining what a strong argument for the author's point would look like, and then respond to that. This is great advice for going beyond the tiny world - limited by bias, habit, etc - in whic
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by seandenigris 7y ago
I don't exactly have a playbook. I generally just fix as I go. I try to install the project, fix any errors, run the test, fix the errors, etc. I can say that some version jumps have been almost no work and probably the max time I&#x27
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by seandenigris 7y ago
One click on the "Documentation" tab provides links to several screencasts/tutorials. Are you looking for something specific? "Hello world" doesn't cleanly map to an environment as comprehensive as Pharo becaus
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by seandenigris 7y ago
Cool perspective! FYI there are also REST add-ons now (as well as other more minimal frameworks) for when REST is desired.
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by seandenigris 7y ago
Due to Pharo/Smalltalk being not just a language, but a language/libraries/IDE, I think it's important to distinguish between API instability (which IHMO is better called evolution) vs. bugginess. API evolution is a core
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by seandenigris 8y ago
> Is [immersion] being only in the programming environment and not leaving? The dream is never leaving, as expressed by the Dynabook concept. However, in the full expression of that dream, the browser et al that you mention would also
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by seandenigris 11y ago
> SmallTalk was designed to BE the computer Yes! This is why comparing Smalltalk to programming languages misses the whole point. I just wrote a blog post about this: "Programmers: You Probably Don’t Know What a Computer Is"
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by seandenigris 11y ago
Part of the confusion stems from the term "Smalltalk" being overloaded. When most people hear the word, they think "Smalltalk-80" - the version released over 30 years ago. What they probably don't know is that Small
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by seandenigris 11y ago
I forwarded you question to the dev list
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by seandenigris 12y ago
A hammer is just a long handle with a piece of metal on the end, but if you're not building something valuable with it, who cares?
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What a Computer Really Is(seandenigris.com)
8 points by seandenigris 12y ago|4 comments
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by seandenigris 12y ago
2364 issues closed by > 80 contributors in ~ 1 year - WOW! And the website looks great :)
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by seandenigris 14y ago
You are asking to force the question into an artificially created box that doesn't help us get to the truth. The Smalltalk experience is naturally - and more fairly - compared to Ruby as an experience . They are both tools, and thus we
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by seandenigris 14y ago
FileSystem, Zinc, or Zodiac alone would have been enough to celebrate! It's amazing what's been accomplished in a short time...
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by seandenigris 14y ago
Smalltalk is great (mostly for historic reasons these days) In my experience coming to Pharo Smalltalk after a 15 year journey through C, C++, VB, PHP, ObjC, and Ruby (my second favorite lang), I can say that none of the reasons I find Sm