Lisp does from what I have seen and quite easily so. Probably I would be using common lisp is it was so much against GUIs and its graphics libraries were more mac friendly.
How much important is smalltalk on JVM. Extremely ! Dont go far , just take at Clojure. Its rapidly becomes the new popular lisp and is super actively developed. What Clojure author was very smart not only did not compete with common lisp but bring to the table things that generally lisp libraries dont focus on, concurency. I think if Redline wants to be sucessful smalltalk that will even overtake other smalltalk concurency is something that can gives it alot of traction. Also we should not forget JVM and huge amount of libraries that comes with. I have a project in mind calling "Atlas" its mission is to allow smalltalk to use python libraries via sockets, it will be integrated to Ephestos which is my main project. I could make the bridge compatible with JVM libraries too. I dont know how much interest there is the community for using python and java libraries , and there is certainly disadvantages and sacrifices for doing so. But on the other hand why not have more options than pure smalltalk options. Especially when those option makes you avoid porting your code to python and java ;) ________________________________ From: Sebastian Nozzi <[email protected]> To: Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2012, 22:22 Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Redline Smalltalk on heroku .... Nothing beats Smalltalk's "experience". Cheers, Sebastian
