Re: [Pharo-users] Google building new OS with Dart

2016-08-23 Thread askoh
Kilon: Thanks for your input. That is indeed brainstorming. I know the importance of doing too. But the value of brainstorming is big. A farmer does a lot of work but is not valued much. Watson and Crick brainstormed a lot and discovered the double helix. I don't want Smalltalk to miss that

Re: [Pharo-users] Google building new OS with Dart

2016-08-23 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
An area that generally interests me is making languages cooperate. When I started with the idea of Pharo using Python libraries, I thought it would take me months to have something usable. Instead it took me weeks mainly because I found that a very simple solution could provide me with a working

Re: [Pharo-users] Google building new OS with Dart

2016-08-20 Thread askoh
I think a lot could have change in the two years since I asked how Smalltalk can benefit from the development of Dart. Originally, Dart was meant to be a web language. Now it is going to be the main language for an Operating System. Since it has the full backing of Google, it is in our interest to

Re: [Pharo-users] Google building new OS with Dart

2016-08-20 Thread Ben Coman
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:23 PM, askoh wrote: > It became news a few days ago. It is called Fuchsia and is meant to run on > all devices from IoT on up. The interesting thing is that Dart will be the > main language. The developers promise to make Fuchsia run on Raspberry Pi 3 >

[Pharo-users] Google building new OS with Dart

2016-08-17 Thread askoh
It became news a few days ago. It is called Fuchsia and is meant to run on all devices from IoT on up. The interesting thing is that Dart will be the main language. The developers promise to make Fuchsia run on Raspberry Pi 3 shortly. Since Dart is pretty close to Smalltalk, how can Smalltalk be