Peter, How hard would it be to generate other languages? e.g. PHP for Zend Framework 2.
Best, Phil On Sep 7, 2017 14:54, "Peter Fisk" <peter.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, The RailsExpress.com website will be updated over the coming > days to reflect what I am currently working on in Pharo 6.0. I have found > that the "Smalltalk like" environment in Ruby isn't powerful enough to > implement a fully automated web application generator. That is why I > changed to Pharo a couple of weeks ago - progress using Pharo has been > incredibly fast. So, my primary focus from now on will be development using > Pharo on my Macintosh. The "Smalltalk like" environment in Ruby actually > uses an interpreter (written in Ruby) that was designed to run Smalltalk > byte codes. It would be trivial to run Smalltalk instead of Ruby using the > framework. The rational for running Ruby instead of Smalltalk was to make > it more accessible to Ruby-on-Rails developers. An interesting fact is that > the Ruby/Smalltalk interpreter is already running nicely on the web (in a > Rails environment using Qooxdoo libraries for the GUI) and also running on > my Mac using JRuby with a Java Swing GUI. And it could be used with some > modifications to run Smalltalk in the same environments. My goal is to > build an "AI" that can automate most of the work that web developers do. > Smalltalk is the only environment that I know of that can implement such an > AI in a short period of time. BTW, I have read the material about Pier and > Magritte which is very interesting, especially in regards to the DSL. My > approach to building the GUI has been to model the Qooxdoo class structure > in Smalltalk and use the Smalltalk objects to build the required code when > I send them a "renderOn: aStream" message. I will be posting more Pharo > related information on my Rails Express Quora blog > <https://railsexpress.quora.com/>. Regards, -- Peter > ------------------------------ > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive > <http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html> at Nabble.com. >
