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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/
squeak.org
- [Q] alternative implementation to IBM Smalltalk
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Old version of offline Scratch that had a secret OS
Also, it's not really an "operating system", nor was it implemented by the ST. It's just part of Squeak (you got the name right), the "engine" Scratch 1.x was made with (which lets you edit the code in the same window it's running in).
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Ask HN: Alternatives to organizing code in files and folders?
Just downloaded https://squeak.org/ to play around with this concept.
I wonder if there is already a modern tool/suite for Node/Python inspired by Smalltalk...
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What are some important differences between the popular versions of OOP (e.g. Java, Python) vs. the purist's versions of OOP (e.g. Smalltalk)?
AFAIK the major SmallTalk distributions are https://squeak.org/ and https://pharo.org/. I've heard that Pharo is more complex and "practical", while Squeak is more educational and beginner-friendly. But both stick to their roots with "everything is an object or method", extreme reflection, and integrated runtime/IDE.
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Ask HN: What software stack to select for this boot to code computer?
Your concept looks nice, it reminds me a bit of the Lisperati: https://www.hackster.io/news/the-lisperati1000-is-a-cyberdec...
So, did you consider Lisp or maybe Smalltalk? Plan 9 or Inferno might also be options.
Plan 9 comes in different variants, the "classic" one (with a Raspberry Pi port by Richard Miller) or 9front, an Inferno porting tutorial can be found at https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi
Lisp and Smalltalk can run with or without Linux underneath, e.g. on the Raspberry Pi.
Bare-metal Lisp is available with interim: http://interim-os.com
Finally, bare-metal Smalltalk is available in my crosstalk system: https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk
Of course, Lisp and Smalltalk can also run hosted under Linux, e.g. using Squeak (https://squeak.org), Pharo (https://pharo.org) or InterLisp (https://github.com/Interlisp/medley).
Or - a crazy idea - build an emacs-only machine. That would be fun! :)
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Squeak Morphic Layers
This repository contains multiple projects closely related to (hardware-accelerated) rendering in Squeak/Smalltalk.
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Squeak Graphics OpenGL
Packages related to using OpenGL in Squeak/Smalltalk.
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Smalltalk-80 on Raspberry Pi: A Bare Metal Implementation
Author here, feel free to ask any questions you have :).
It's amazing this little project shows up again here. So far, I received a lot of very positive and friendly feedback about this little pet project of mine.
The whole project would not have been possible without the work of Rene Stange, who created the circle bare-metal library for the Raspberry Pi (https://github.com/rsta2) and Dan Banay, who created a C++ implementation of the Smalltalk-80 VM (https://github.com/dbanay/Smalltalk). I mostly hacked together some glue code...
If you want to dig deeper, the Blue Book by Adele Goldberg and David Robson (scan provided by Stephane Ducasse, thanks a lot!) is _the_ reference on both the language and the structure and implementation of the underlying bytecode VM: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....
Beware, though it's fully functional, crosstalk is still limited by constraints of the original Smalltalk 80 system - e.g. in terms of color (black and white only), possible screen resolution (2^20 pixels, the system crashes if you try to increase the resolution beyond this) and available memory (~1 MB!).
Nevertheless, I think it's a rather authentic reproduction of a more than 40 year old system and I learned (in a comment thread on a completely different topic) that one of our fellow hackernews regulars used it to teach his kid Smalltalk programming - love it! I haven't tried to optimize it significantly, so there's no JIT compiler or bitblit acceleration using the Raspberry Pi GPU.
There's a more modern bare-metal Smalltalk implementation based on Squeak (https://squeak.org) for the Raspberry Pi by Pablo Marx, though this seems to have some stability problems according to the author: https://github.com/pablomarx/RaspberrySqueak
Finally, if you are interested in alternative bare-metal language/OS environments for the Raspberry Pi, you could also give Lukas Hartmann's (of MNT Reform notebook fame) Interim OS a try: http://interim-os.com
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Ask HN: Programming Without a Build System?
Came here to mention Smalltalk. In things like Smalltalk-80 and Squeak, there was no build system, there are no source code files, there isn't anything but the Smalltalk Development Environment. With something like ENVY/Developer, building involved generating an exported image from the environment.
If OP wants to try it: https://squeak.org/
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Programming Portals
She missed the biggest ‚programming portal‘ of all: Squeak (Smalltalk) (https://squeak.org/)
Inspecting objects, ‚live‘ coding, a GUI that's intimately tied to its CLI - that's exactly Squeak!
The Morphic UI: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1870
What are some alternatives?
Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev - Active development of Cuis Smalltalk
smalltalk - GNU Smalltalk
SqueakJS - A Squeak Smalltalk VM in Javascript
pldb - PLDB: a Programming Language Database. A computable encyclopedia about programming languages.
CodeParadise - Framework for developing web applications and Node.js applications using Smalltalk
Parasol - Testing web apps in Smalltalk using Selenium WebDriver.
poprc - A Compiler for the Popr Language
Rebol3 - Source code for the Rebol [R3] interpreter
Dolphin - Dolphin Smalltalk Core Image
inferno-rpi - This is compilation of Labs “Porting Inferno OS to Raspberry Pi”. We decided to organize it as some set of small labs with very detailed steps of what is done to reach results and make everything easy to reproduce.
Smalltalk - Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file