2016-12-27 14:44 GMT-03:00 Vitor Medina Cruz <vitormc...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > Is the Pharo team aware of the http://webassembly.org/ effort? The Browser > Preview tentative is for Q1, do you think it is a good opportunity to push > Pharo to web development more easily? I know next to nothing of VM binary > (lol), but I am curious on how one could provide an Smalltalk (in this > particular Pharo) application in the web using webassembly, as the project > is aimed to broaden the development choices to something different than > Javascript or Transpilers (which I profoundly wishes to succeed since I hate > js) .
It's been mentioned that SqueakJS [1] might benefit from WebAssembly, and use that as a replacement for its JS VM. So far it is the only Smalltalk project that is in a position to benefit from that. With Craig's JS Bridge [2] you can manipulate the DOM from within a 100% smalltalk image like: ((JS document getElementsByTagName: 'h1') at: 0) at: 'innerHTML' put: 'Squeak said Hello World at ', Time now asString The images being used for Squeak JS examples are mostly old and the UI/UX are awkward and convoluted by today standards. But it would be a matter of having a minimal Pharo image that can run there. So you would have the power of Smalltalk development, with the ubiquity of JS runtimes. Regards, [1] https://squeak.js.org/ [2] https://squeak.js.org/demo/simple.html#document=JSBridge.st Esteban A. Maringolo
