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pharo | makepad | |
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18 | 24 | |
1,140 | 4,690 | |
1.5% | 2.8% | |
10.0 | 9.9 | |
5 days ago | 3 days ago | |
Smalltalk | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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pharo
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Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
I think in part it's because the idea that programming is text and math-based is too ingrained in society.
For example, we talk about programming languages. But IMO there are also programming systems such as Smalltalk [1]. I've programmed 2 years professionally in it, currently looking for an engagement in a different language (a curiosity thing, also a resume thing).
I think Smalltalk has a lot to offer by switching the programmer's view of thinking about programming systems rather than programming languages.
Moreover, programming systems is also not where it is at. One downside that Pharo in particular has is that the community is small. A lot of plugins/libraries that are a given in other languages aren't there! For some, however, this is a strength because one gets to learn much better how to build stuff from the ground up and tinker on it by yourself. Given that there is still a lot of low hanging fruit it is easy to become a contributor.
But this part, whether a community is big or small means that I think it's smarter to think about programming ecosystems where a programming language or programming system is the central hub connecting the programming community together.
Why don't schools teach about programming communities? See my first sentence ;-)
[1] https://pharo.org - a modern Smalltalk
- Ask HN: What perfect software did you discover of recent?
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Pharaoh - Server Side Framework for Dart
I read Pharo for just a split second
- LSP could have been better
- Ask HN: What would an IDE built for the Apple Vision Pro look like?
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Is there a programming language that will blow my mind?
And Pharo is a good Smalltalk!
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emacs version of Microsoft Access?
What you need is a cross platform GUI framework that still is a mutable environment allowing easy extend ability with a simple language. May I suggest Pharo Smalltalk?
- Pharo 11, the pure object-oriented language and environment is released!
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Pharo 11
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/9729#issuecomm...
When all the required dependencies are being found on your Fedor install we should wonder why "the VM seemed to hang and never started properly".
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Ask HN: Alternatives to organizing code in files and folders?
Consider playing with Pharo [1], it shows how it can still use Git to store sources in background.
There is LivelyKernel [2] but some versions are more file-oriented (like Lively 4 [3)
[1] https://pharo.org/
makepad
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WASM: Big Deal or Little Deal?
It is what Makepad is working on in an interesting way using Wasm and Rust. They have created a Figma-like DSL and a good code separation with the logic behind it. You can edit UI's of in-production apps, and they are bundling an editor for that. Accessibility is an issue, and the project are looking to offer proper support there. In their video linked on the README they run the conference slides on Makepad with live apps embedded and running at 120 fps.
https://github.com/makepad/makepad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36567681
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Snappy UIs with WebAssembly and Web Workers
> if anyone tells you they need to use WebAssembly to make the UI snappy I'd advise you interrogate that assertion thoroughly.
Get prepared to be blown away by Makepad [0]. I have no affiliation with them, but just watched their most recent conference presentation [1]. The slides were made with Makepad itself and included, embedded, a full-blown IDE, a synthesizer app, a Mandelbrod to zoom in endlessly, and more. All running at 120fps. The presentation is for the most part live-coding with this setup.
What they want to do is bring coders and designers closer together, and while some code is in Rust they developed a DSL for the GUI parts that is close to how Figma works. These GUI's can run anywhere.
And I couldn't help thinking "Why would people have complicated stacks to create Web 2.0 apps for the Google Web, when they have this?", in other words an opportunity to break out of the browser straitjacket.
[0] https://github.com/makepad/makepad
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC4FCS-oMpg
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Makepad- Synthesizer Written in Rust
For those who haven’t seen it, Makepad is also an in-browser code editor with an open-source UI toolkit. Looks like this synth is one of the examples of the UI toolkit.
https://makepad.dev/
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50 Shades of Rust, or emerging Rust GUIs in a WASM world
And I'm obsessed with what happens when you press Alt in their editor. I never knew I wanted this, but boy, do I want it.
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Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
I tried this, using https://makepad.dev our GPU accelerated UI and renderstack. And unfortunately it wasn't a great experience. Text popping forward for whatever reason is not really an improvement (i tried indent depth, syntax highlighting reasons, cursor behavior). Maybe 'veeeeery' subtly could do something, but otherwise you dont want it to break visual symmetry as we are used to
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Is the regex crate a bottleneck in your program? If so, can you share the details?
Wow, so they did: https://github.com/makepad/makepad/pull/142
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Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again
It says on the front page Mac and Web only
https://github.com/makepad/makepad#prerequisites
(windows and linux are coming )
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Rust Web Framework Comparison
We can! It’s a lot of work because you don’t have the whole JS ecosystem to fall back on, but to some that’s a feature not a bug.
My favorite example of this is https://makepad.dev
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Lapce release v0.0.12 open source code editor
And a feature highlight of Code Lens. The idea is borrowed from https://github.com/makepad/makepad
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Why Not Rust?
When it comes to compile times, the most optimized Rust codebase I know for optimized for this is makepad.dev [1].
It is compiling from scratch on mac m1 in around 7.5s [2] and that's +100k lines of Rust. However there is close to none dependencies, so this +100k is all there is to compile pretty much.
[1] https://makepad.dev/
[2] https://twitter.com/rikarends/status/1467529091284934666
What are some alternatives?
Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev - Active development of Cuis Smalltalk
rust-gpu - 🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧
SqueakJS - A Squeak Smalltalk VM in Javascript
ProseMirror - The ProseMirror WYSIWYM editor
squeak.org - Squeak/Smalltalk Website
Flutter - Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
CodeParadise - Framework for developing web applications and Node.js applications using Smalltalk
gallery - Flutter Gallery was a resource to help developers evaluate and use Flutter
Parasol - Testing web apps in Smalltalk using Selenium WebDriver.
react-canvas - High performance <canvas> rendering for React components
Rebol3 - Source code for the Rebol [R3] interpreter
xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.