Will this be recorded for later viewing (for those of us who would prefer to be asleep at 3am)?
James > On Jan 17, 2022, at 2:30 PM, Giovanni Corriga <giova...@corriga.net> wrote: > > For our January meeting, we'll be hosting GemTalk's Martin McClure who will > talk about a new Smalltalk IDE - Sparkle. > > If you're setting out to develop a Smalltalk IDE from scratch, what design > decisions do you make? You'd love to "fix" the things that have long annoyed > you in existing IDEs, but new designs risk creating their own novel > annoyances. > The Sparkle project-in-progress is creating a new and not entirely > conventional development environment for GemStone Smalltalk. Come see factors > that have influenced its design, get a demo of the current state of the > tools, learn about the project's next steps, and share *your* IDE annoyances. > > Martin heard about Smalltalk in 1975, *finally* got his hands on a running > Smalltalk system ten years later, and hasn't let go since. In his 25 years on > the GemStone team, Martin has worked on many aspects - some VM internals, > some user interface design, but mostly all the things that go in between. In > his rare spare time, he works on Mist, a Smalltalk variant with improved > modularity and no virtual machine. When not dodging Covid, he does a lot of > contra and country dancing. > > This will be an online meeting from home. > > If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup > page ( https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/282299228/ > <https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/282299228/> ) to receive the meeting > details. Don’t forget to bring your laptop and drinks! >
