pharo
Mezzano
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12 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
Smalltalk | Common Lisp | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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pharo
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I am concerned I am too lazy to be a professional programmer
Smalltalk (https://pharo.org/)
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Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64
Smalltalk also did this. These days my impression is the most active tendril is https://pharo.org/.
What I find especially interesting about that relative to this Python distro is that the Pharo executable runs in a host OS (e.g. whatever your daily driver is) and can maintain different image files for different Pharo system states. So not only do you have the integrated language/OS (which is very cool on its own), but you also have something that feels like Docker containers.
And it even goes beyond containers because those image files really are the state of the system at the time they're saved, which means you can ask for that file in a bug report and get guaranteed bug reproduction, which is pretty incredible.
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Dr. Geo 22.09-alpha release
It is the initial alpha release end-user can test. It is a complete port from Pharo to Cuis-Smalltalk. Likely bugs will be find.
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Ask HN: What are peoples opinions on Smalltalk and its derivatives?
I've recently started learning Pharo^1 and I think there is a lot to like about it. It hurts to say as a Lisp and Emacs fan, but using the Pharo IDE feels like using Emacs/extending Emacs with Emacs Lisp, but somehow with a more tightly integrated language and environment. Being able to easily inspect the code related to the UI widgets, modify it and make changes on the fly are unlike anything I've experienced in other languages. I think a whole OS built on top of Smalltalk would be so cool and really play into the strengths of Smalltalk. I'm also amazed that SmallTalk had a lot of these IDE like features since before the 80s^2. I know there are a lot of issues with image based languages, and I admit I haven't been using one long enough to have experienced all the Gotcha, so what does HN think of Smalltalks and it's derivatives, and what are you all doing with them?
1. https://pharo.org/
2. https://youtu.be/uknEhXyZgsg?t=2366
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50 years Smalltalk anniversary celebration at Computer History Museum
Cool! I program for around 7 months in Pharo now at Yesplan [0]. We're hiring a devops engineer and a software engineer. While the Pharo website [1] avoids mentioning it, it's a Smalltalk descendant.
What I like about Pharo:
1. Programming in the debugger makes things feel much quicker
2. Evaluating expressions inside your code editor makes programming feel much quicker
3. The ability to quickly browse classes and methods makes programming feel much quicker (e.g. I type Date somewhere, select it, press CMD+B and now I browse the Date class).
Don't get me wrong, Pharo has downsides, especially when it comes to using it in production (IMO). With that said, the language feels fun to use! I definitely like it now as my first language for side projects as it is more graphical, more playful, and feels quicker for iterative development (e.g. when consuming APIs). It's why I wanted to learn it in the first place, it has shown me a different philosophy on how programmers interact with a programming language and IDE.
[0] https://yesplan.be/en/vacancies
[1] https://pharo.org
- Programming Breakthroughs We Need
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What are examples of humanity discovering something amazing and then just moving on and ignoring it?
Of course, Alan Kay's Smalltalk 80 is for many the quintessential lost paradise of personal computing. Some modern descendants are Squeak, Pharo and Cuis. Then there's Lisp machines, or for something more Unix-like, there's Plan 9.. so many cool systems deprived of mass adoption for no good reason.
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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
> You know, that "assembling things live in the sky" Lisp feeling (Yegge's phrase, not mine). The only other computation environment that is right there en par in flexibility and conveyance of the same trippy feeling is, of course, Emacs.
Do you know Pharo? The experience you describe is also typical in the Smalltalk family. See https://pharo.org/
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Code vs. No-Code
Smalltalk could be used as the "ideal" tool (balance between Code & No-Code). It starts out with a simple graphical interface for doing everything, but it also encourages you to customize everything by modifying the underlying code. Of course, the disadvantage is that it's quite niche - very few people actually use it nowadays.
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4coder editor is now fully open source
In Smalltalk there is no such thing as source files. Your program is an image which can be freely modified and dumped. Look at Pharo[1] which is a modern Smalltalk environment. You start it up and create classes in the IDE, but never do you create "source files".
[1] https://pharo.org/
Mezzano
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A standalone zero-dependency Lisp for Linux
Have you made or plan to make any contributions to Mezzano (https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano) or are you mainly interested in seeing how far you can take this thing on your own?
- Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
- Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp
- Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
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Why Lisp?
>> except building compilers and OSes
SBCL is written in Lisp, yes? Except the runtime, which is C + asm.
I've heard people wrote some OSes in the past, like Genera. Or if you prefer recent attempt, try https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano. Never tried it, though.
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Help needed - new programming language
No need to.
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Dynamic, JIT-compiled language for systems programming?
Not at all. See mezzano for a notable recent example of an OS written entirely in a dynamic language.
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What help is needed for Lisp community in order to make Lisp more popular?
So..
"Why do you want to make Lisp more popular? If you were sucessful, what would be different in the world, and why is that desirable to you?"
Normally at this point I'd listen to the response, and ask more questions based on that. That would wind up with a very, very deep thread, so I'll break a cardinal rule and pre-guess at some answers.
This kind of question comes up pretty frequently. In many cases, I suspect the motivation behind the question is "Wow! Here's this cool tool I've discovered. I want to make something really useful with it. I want to do it as part of a community effort; share my excitement with others, share in their excitement, and know that what I'm making is useful because others find it desirable and are excited by it." The field could be cooking, sports, old machine tools, tiny homes, or demo scene. Its the fundemental driver for most content on HN, YouTube, Instructables, and such. It is a Good Thing.
If that is your motivator, then my suggestion is to find something that bugs you and fix it. You've already decided you're only interested in code, not other aspects. You said you preferred vim, but the emacs ecosystem has a very rich set of sharp edges that need filing off, and a rich set of tools with which to attack them.
One example: even after 50 years there's no open IDE which allows you to easily globally rename a Lisp identifier. I don't know about LispWorks or other proprietary environments, but you can't in emacs or vim do a right-click on "foo" in "(defun foo ()...)" and select a command which automatically renames it in all invocations. [Queue lots of "but you can..." replies here.] I don't think vim is up to the task of doing this internally. It would be possible in emacs; but would require a huge effort with lots of help from other people. If you emerged alive from that rabbit warren you'd join the company of Certified "How Hard Could it Be?" Mad Scientists such as Dr. "I just want to draw molecules" Meister [1] and "Wouldn't an OS in Lisp be Cool" Froggey [2].
[1] https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp
[2] Mezzano https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
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Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
You might want to look at Mezzano which is an operation system written in Common Lisp https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
I haven’t tried it since moving to M1/ARM, but it is cool.
- are there emacs machines?
What are some alternatives?
Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev - Active development of Cuis Smalltalk
mirage - MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels
SqueakJS - A Squeak Smalltalk VM in Javascript
coalton - Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.
iceberg - Iceberg is the main toolset for handling VCS in Pharo.
Smalltalk - By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80
squeak.org - Squeak/Smalltalk Website
april - The APL programming language (a subset thereof) compiling to Common Lisp.
teliva - Fork of Lua 5.1 to encourage end-user programming
ChezScheme - Chez Scheme
Rebol3 - Source code for the Rebol [R3] interpreter
tao-theme-emacs - tao-theme - two uncoloured color themes for EMACS