2010/11/26 Janko Mivšek <janko.miv...@eranova.si>: > On 26. 11. 2010 18:20, csra...@bol.com.br wrote: >> Em 24/11/2010 11:50, Jan van de Sandt < jvdsa...@gmail.com > escreveu: > >>> A Smalltalk variant would use Smalltalk as the source language >>> instead of Java, the other parts of GWT can be reused. GWT is open >>> source (Apache 2.0 license). > >> I think we have first to evaluate to what audience/market are thinking of >> targeting this effort, then estimate the effort, in order to see if its >> worth it. > > Specially we the web guys are very interested of such a beast, because > we need to develop more in more on the client side and in JavaScript, > which is a bit hard, because of our Smalltalk habits, you know :) > > Even more, Smalltalk on the client (Clamato way) can also solve one of > the main JavaScript problems: debugging on the client side. If we can > have near the same debugger on the client as we have in our IDE's, well, > this would be a huge step forward. > indeed. debugging JS is hard. Most of the times, all you can do is to put 'alert(...)' in interesting places, to see what's going wrong. But there are things, like http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/ didn't tried it.
>> If the attempt is a reinterpretation a Smalltalk base development environment >> would make a difference in the ecosystem we must check if we aren't flared >> by our preference of languages versus operational pragmatics. >> >> If the idea is to have such environment to the present (and sadly minute) >> community of Smalltalk developers, probably the effort would attend to a >> very small clientèle and the returns will be elusive and the project will >> end orphan. > > -- > Janko Mivšek > AIDA/Web > Smalltalk Web Application Server > http://www.aidaweb.si > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
