Glamorous Toolkit as IDE for another language?

Did you know that the creator of Smalltalk , Alan Kay , made Smalltalk not as the ultimate environment but as the basis of future environments?

And it worked Eclipse for instance , the well known IDE, started as a Smalltalk implementation.

I have done something similar with my Python bridge , it allow you to execute Python code from Pharo even using Pharo syntax and if there is an error it fires up the debugger displaying both the Python and Pharo error and even allows you to correct and re execute with ease from inside the debugger like regular Pharo code.

I am not familiar with Glamourous Toolkit but I know moose people use it to build tools that analyze code in other languages like Java.

SmaCC parser comes with a ton of support for existing languages, its what I used for my Python bridge to parse and convert Python data to Pharo ordered collections.

The problem is that building IDEs is a rather painful process, so don't expect a magic button. So yes you can make he Lua IDE, but there is no library in Pharo that will make the IDE for you.

Where Pharo suffers is in the text editing department , we cannot compete currently with emacs and vim but we are improving .

It's possible to unify emacs or other external editors with Pharo. This way you won't have to remake something that already exists and you can use Pharo as an extension to this editors for example for live coding, code analysis, code visualizations, package installation etc areas that Pharo excels at.

Emacs does support communication via sockets you can even take inspiration from Shampoo

http://dmitrymatveev.co.uk/shampoo/

Sky is the limit here, you can do amazing things with Pharo if you have the time and desire.

Hi Luke, definitively a good idea. We are trying to do the same with Kendrick scripts in order to be able to run it from CLI and also in the image.
We don't use Glamour at the moment but more the moldable tools like Playground+inspector.


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Hi Luke,

Welcome to Pharo !

Your name did ring a bell from past CL, SLIME, Erlang days - good to see you here.

I know that Denis is working on a remote IDE (Pharo to Pharo), you might get some ideas out of that.

Sven

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Hi Luke!

Yes, this is a good idea and it should not be too hard to have a first usable result.
It all depends on how far you want the IDE to be. Having a Playground / Workspace, Inspector, and a code browser should not be too hard. If you wish to have (i) Pharo and Lua directly talk to each other or (ii) support Lua refactoring then this is significantly more complicated.

Cheers,
Alexandre


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Hi Luke,

It seems like a good idea to me. I'm implementing an outliner+notebook
alike interface for integrating interactive documentation, data
visualization and exploratory computing, called Grafoscopio [1]
(available from the Pharo Catalog) and would be really nice to have
something like the Jupyter[2] kernels talking with several languages,
supported in the playgrounds. That would be a good start to increase the
diversity of languages supported in interactive documents

[1] http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html
[2] http://jupyter.org/

Welcome and let me know if this idea of multilingual (code & prose)
interactive documents rings a bell for you.

Cheers,

Offray

PS:

By the way, Ben, if you're reading this, my migration of Grafoscopio to
the Spec+Glamour interface is going well and now you can test the
notebooks. I'm open to feedback.

Next week we will start our 7th edition of our Data Week hackathon +
workshop, this time for intermediate level apprentices, that have the
experience with previous Data Weeks.

On 22/10/16 04:47, Luke Gorrie wrote:

On 22/10/16 11:47, Luke Gorrie wrote:
Definitely a good idea. The toolkit is up to it, and probably still
contains a few places where it is bound too tightly to smalltalk.
I have integrated documentation and workshop exercises in a glamour
browser. In my UI experiments I've bound Spotter for different purposes
(selecting a person from an addressbook). The idea goes back a long
time. In Squeak, the PostgresV3 integration allows editing of pgsql
stored procedures in the code browser.

Stephan