Re: [Pharo-users] New type of web application using HTML, CSS and Smalltalk

2020-05-05 Thread ponyatov
> I've watched the youtube presentation and navigated through the impress > presentation on your site and it too quickly introduces tons of concepts > of > what you can do but nothing about why anyone should want to do those > things > or how to put them together into something a user would use o

Re: [Pharo-users] Embedding pharo in C++

2020-01-21 Thread ponyatov
Good day Is it a variant to implement an embeddable Little Smalltalk-like engine that does not use bytecode but uses LLVM JIT for direct machine code compilation? Or maybe can we use a less aggressive approach with the same embedded engine which interprets bytecode? -- Sent from: http://forum.w

Re: [Pharo-users] Is Pharo is a good frontend system for a game console?

2020-01-16 Thread ponyatov
But I still think a lot about using the Smalltalk system as a user interface, as it lets to program for any unskilled user have no programming background, and especially like the feature of the cross-powerup persistence. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

[Pharo-users] Is Pharo is a good frontend system for a game console?

2020-01-16 Thread ponyatov
Good day I'm playing with custom little Linux for retrogaming console based on Raspberry Pi 4. Is Pharo is a good frontend system (GUI) for a game console? There is no mouse or keyboard by default, only joystick. So running Smalltalk interface on system bootup has some questions on usability. Al

Re: [Pharo-users] How can we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Smalltalk?

2020-01-05 Thread ponyatov
The best tribute to 50th anniversary will be the implementation of distributed multi-user VM. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Re: [Pharo-users] can I write this without the three if then;s

2019-12-30 Thread ponyatov
What Smalltalk has for full-sized pattern matching? Is it possible to make in message-only syntax? -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Re: [Pharo-users] Namespaces (was Re: Behold Pharo: The Modern Smalltalk)

2019-12-22 Thread ponyatov
What is the modern state of namespaces support? Maybe in Pharo 8 (or 9) I'm going to model some generic async Smalltalk in Pharo, package-bounded namespaces can save me from prefixing every class name. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Re: [Pharo-users] I feel like an overwhelmed maintenance programmer - how to get some toeholds?

2019-12-21 Thread ponyatov
The problem can be covered by a few experienced programmers who stream their everyday work on a regular basis. As I know, there is no anyone doing it. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Re: [Pharo-users] I feel like an overwhelmed maintenance programmer - how to get some toeholds?

2019-12-18 Thread ponyatov
I'm speaking about 20K SRAM computers and Java-only services. FFI and VMs do not matter here. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html

Re: [Pharo-users] I feel like an overwhelmed maintenance programmer - how to get some toeholds?

2019-12-18 Thread ponyatov
Hello, colleague. I'm also working in the same domain, primarily on the target of adapting the Actor model (async distributed messaging) for IoT systems in a wide: from deeply embedded nodes to top-level north-side cloud cervices. I like Pharo as a workstation system and IDE, but I'm not looking