Jtalk, a Smalltalk for web developers

> As far as I can see, the only way to call external Javascript is by writing
> Javascript-Code directly into a method like so:
> doSomethingWith: anObject
>      {'return SOMELIBRARY.doSomething(anObject); '}
>
> is this correct?
> The OMETA based Smalltalk->JS translator seem to let one use st-syntax for
> direct access to javascript like so:
>
> doSomethingWith: anObject [
>     SOMELIBRARY doSomething: anObject.
> ]
>
> and CoffeeScript can use JS seamlessly in the same way.
>
> Best regards,
> RD
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Nicolas Petton
> <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to share a project I'm working on on my spare time: Jtalk
>> Smalltalk.
>>
>> http://nicolaspetton.github.com/jtalk
>> https://github.com/NicolasPetton/jtalk
>>
>> Jtalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that compiles into
>> JavaScript.
>>
>> Some features:
>> - it is written in itself (including the parser/compiler)
>> - it is self-contained
>> - it compiles into efficient JS code
>> - it uses the Squeak chunk format
>> - Pharo is considered as the reference implementation
>>
>> I think Jtalk can be compared to CoffeeScript[1], Objective-J[2] or
>> Clamato[3], from which it reuses some ideas and code.
>>
>> Jtalk includes an IDE with a class browser, transcript and workspace, an
>> HTML canvas similar to Seaside and a jQuery binding.
>>
>> It is still a young piece of code, and some important features are still
>> missing/incomplete.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nicolas Petton
>>
>> [1] http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
>> [2] http://cappuccino.org/
>> [3] http://clamato.net
>>
>>
>>
>

> The OMETA based Smalltalk->JS translator seem to let one use st-syntax
> for direct access to javascript like so:
>
>
> doSomethingWith: anObject [
>     SOMELIBRARY doSomething: anObject.
> ]
>
>
> and CoffeeScript can use JS seamlessly in the same way.
>
>
> Best regards,
> RD
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Nicolas Petton
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>         Hi,
>        
>         I would like to share a project I'm working on on my spare
>         time: Jtalk
>         Smalltalk.
>        
>         http://nicolaspetton.github.com/jtalk
>         https://github.com/NicolasPetton/jtalk
>        
>         Jtalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that
>         compiles into
>         JavaScript.
>        
>         Some features:
>         - it is written in itself (including the parser/compiler)
>         - it is self-contained
>         - it compiles into efficient JS code
>         - it uses the Squeak chunk format
>         - Pharo is considered as the reference implementation
>        
>         I think Jtalk can be compared to CoffeeScript[1],
>         Objective-J[2] or
>         Clamato[3], from which it reuses some ideas and code.
>        
>         Jtalk includes an IDE with a class browser, transcript and
>         workspace, an
>         HTML canvas similar to Seaside and a jQuery binding.
>        
>         It is still a young piece of code, and some important features
>         are still
>         missing/incomplete.
>        
>         Cheers,
>         Nicolas Petton
>        
>         [1] http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
>         [2] http://cappuccino.org/
>         [3] http://clamato.net
>        
>        
>
>

>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Nicolas Petton
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>         Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 10:17 +0100, Richard Durr a écrit :
>         > As far as I can see, the only way to call external
>         Javascript is by
>         > writing Javascript-Code directly into a method like so:
>         > doSomethingWith: anObject
>         >      {'return SOMELIBRARY.doSomething(anObject); '}
>         >
>         >
>         > is this correct?
>        
>        
>         No, you can call JS functions with:
>         #basicPerform: and #basicPerform:withArguments:
>        
>         Cheers,
>         Nicolas
>        
>        
>         > The OMETA based Smalltalk->JS translator seem to let one use
>         st-syntax
>         > for direct access to javascript like so:
>         >
>         >
>         > doSomethingWith: anObject [
>         >     SOMELIBRARY doSomething: anObject.
>         > ]
>         >
>         >
>         > and CoffeeScript can use JS seamlessly in the same way.
>         >
>         >
>         > Best regards,
>         > RD
>         >
>         > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Nicolas Petton
>         > <[hidden email]> wrote:
>         >         Hi,
>         >
>         >         I would like to share a project I'm working on on my
>         spare
>         >         time: Jtalk
>         >         Smalltalk.
>         >
>         >         http://nicolaspetton.github.com/jtalk
>         >         https://github.com/NicolasPetton/jtalk
>         >
>         >         Jtalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language
>         that
>         >         compiles into
>         >         JavaScript.
>         >
>         >         Some features:
>         >         - it is written in itself (including the
>         parser/compiler)
>         >         - it is self-contained
>         >         - it compiles into efficient JS code
>         >         - it uses the Squeak chunk format
>         >         - Pharo is considered as the reference
>         implementation
>         >
>         >         I think Jtalk can be compared to CoffeeScript[1],
>         >         Objective-J[2] or
>         >         Clamato[3], from which it reuses some ideas and
>         code.
>         >
>         >         Jtalk includes an IDE with a class browser,
>         transcript and
>         >         workspace, an
>         >         HTML canvas similar to Seaside and a jQuery binding.
>         >
>         >         It is still a young piece of code, and some
>         important features
>         >         are still
>         >         missing/incomplete.
>         >
>         >         Cheers,
>         >         Nicolas Petton
>         >
>         >         [1] http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
>         >         [2] http://cappuccino.org/
>         >         [3] http://clamato.net
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