[Seaside] Jtalk, a Smalltalk for web developers

[Pavel Krivanek]

I supposed it has potential to be the fastest Smalltalk implementation
however classical tinyBenchmark results are not good. :-)

2240896 bytecodes/sec; 162601 sends/sec

Cheers,
-- Pavel

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Nicolas Petton
<petton.nicolas at gmail.com> 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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