[Seaside] Jtalk, a Smalltalk for web developers

[Lukas Renggli]

Very cool, this is exactly the direction to go!

Lukas

On 14 March 2011 21:10, Sebastian Sastre <sebastian at flowingconcept.com> wrote:
>  a move in an appealing direction!
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> On Mar 14, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Nicolas Petton wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to share a project I'm working on on my spare time: Jtalk
>> Smalltalk.
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>> http://nicolaspetton.github.com/jtalk
>> https://github.com/NicolasPetton/jtalk
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>> Jtalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that compiles into
>> JavaScript.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers,
>> Nicolas Petton
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>> [1] http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
>> [2] http://cappuccino.org/
>> [3] http://clamato.net
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