yes exactly, something that takes advantage of the existing pharo AST so I dont have to reinvent IDE tools etc. Because in that case I may as well do this without Pharo because then it defeats the purpose of taking advantage of all this cool Pharo functionality and would be a ton extra effort.
The way I see it , because Pharo syntax is so minimal should be relative easy to implement a language on top that its syntax is nothing more than Pharo objects. Looks different but underneath its plain old Smalltalk. This is why I mentioned Lisp. On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:11 AM Clément Bera <bera.clem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think in addition of the parser/compilation chain, a language is about > having a good IDE. > > The Pharo IDE depends more and more on the AST and not on the source code, > so if your new language uses an AST polymorphic with the Smalltalk AST I > guess you can have IDE tools for free (at least partly). > > At least you can consider frameworks to build code browser such as Glamour > as an available library to create a programming language. > > In addition, Omnibrower, which is the default code browser in Pharo 1.4, > can browse the code of any language. You provide Omnibrowser a language > model and it browses your code based on your model. > > > > 2016-03-22 9:48 GMT+01:00 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com>: > >> If lisp is ideal for creating new languages so is Smalltalk so I was >> wondering what kind of libraries there are out there for helping with the >> creation of new languages in Pharo. I know about SmaCC and PettitParser , >> what else is out there ? >> > >
