Hi Cedreek, (Part of this I mentioned on Discord as well, but not all readers will be on Discord)
I'm working with a tiny Smalltalk image (currently around 150Kb) which contains basic classes (very similar to PharoCandle, but with the regular Smalltalk names without PC-prefix, see https://github.com/carolahp/PharoCandleSrc). It additionally supports WebSockets when used in combination with SqueakJS, but I'm working on a regular WebSocket-version for OpenSmalltalk-VM as well. The image has an ObjectEncoder/Decoder pair allowing the image to 'receive' encoded classes and methods from a regular Smalltalk image (bytcode only, since no compiler is present in the tine image). The tiny image can install these classes and use them. The current 'protocol' is to send messages to this tiny image and have the image send events back to the regular image. The tiny image (client) is responsible for making a connection with the regular image (server). But this protocol can be adjusted with newly installed classes of course ;-). My idea (dream?) is to create small cloud images for personal use, so you can run many on limited computing units. These images will not have file- or FFI-support and need to retrieve data through WebSocket/HTTP/... or other web communication technology. It is part of a project I'm working on to learn programming in Smalltalk to kids. They can spin up an image in the cloud (or on their Raspberry Pi at home) and load their code from a remote repository. The development environment will run in the cloud and be usable with a web browser. In the web browser runs a tiny image which can execu...o wait, I explained that part already ;-). So in the web browser this same tiny image is running (on SqueakJS). This time, it loads code to be able to manipulate the DOM. This tiny image is sort of the Javascript replacement. So everything is Smalltalk! :-) Still a long way to go though. I hope to be able to demonstrate a little of this in a not so distant future. I will share my code as well. Everything will be open source. Feel free to reach out if anyone wants to participate. ;-) Regards, Erik -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
