Re: [Pharo-users] Google building new OS with Dart

2016-08-23 Thread askoh
Kilon: Thanks for your input. That is indeed brainstorming. I know the importance of doing too. But the value of brainstorming is big. A farmer does a lot of work but is not valued much. Watson and Crick brainstormed a lot and discovered the double helix. I don't want Smalltalk to miss that power.

Re: [Pharo-users] Google building new OS with Dart

2016-08-23 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
An area that generally interests me is making languages cooperate. When I started with the idea of Pharo using Python libraries, I thought it would take me months to have something usable. Instead it took me weeks mainly because I found that a very simple solution could provide me with a working p

Re: [Pharo-users] Google building new OS with Dart

2016-08-20 Thread askoh
I think a lot could have change in the two years since I asked how Smalltalk can benefit from the development of Dart. Originally, Dart was meant to be a web language. Now it is going to be the main language for an Operating System. Since it has the full backing of Google, it is in our interest to

Re: [Pharo-users] Google building new OS with Dart

2016-08-20 Thread Ben Coman
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:23 PM, askoh wrote: > It became news a few days ago. It is called Fuchsia and is meant to run on > all devices from IoT on up. The interesting thing is that Dart will be the > main language. The developers promise to make Fuchsia run on Raspberry Pi 3 > shortly. > > Sinc