[Seaside] Jtalk, a Smalltalk for web developers

[Sebastian Sastre]

 a move in an appealing direction!




On Mar 14, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Nicolas Petton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to share a project I'm working on on my spare time: Jtalk
> Smalltalk.
> 
> http://nicolaspetton.github.com/jtalk
> https://github.com/NicolasPetton/jtalk
> 
> Jtalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that compiles into
> JavaScript. 
> 
> Some features:
> - it is written in itself (including the parser/compiler)
> - it is self-contained
> - it compiles into efficient JS code
> - it uses the Squeak chunk format
> - Pharo is considered as the reference implementation
> 
> I think Jtalk can be compared to CoffeeScript[1], Objective-J[2] or
> Clamato[3], from which it reuses some ideas and code.
> 
> Jtalk includes an IDE with a class browser, transcript and workspace, an
> HTML canvas similar to Seaside and a jQuery binding. 
> 
> It is still a young piece of code, and some important features are still
> missing/incomplete.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicolas Petton
> 
> [1] http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
> [2] http://cappuccino.org/
> [3] http://clamato.net
> 
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