Jtalk, a Smalltalk for web developers

> 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
>
>

> Very cool.
>
>
> And just when I was about to forsake Smalltalk in favor of Javascript
> for Web 2.0 apps. In my apps, the bulk of the intelligence is in the
> client with the server is just doing simple RESTful stuff. It kind of
> made server-side Smalltalk seem like overkill... But if I could use
> Smalltalk for the client-side: awesome.
>
>
> Works great in Firefox.
>
>
> Safari complains about (I think) the use of "class" as a variable name
> at line 746 in ide.js.

>
>
> Regards,
> TF
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:36 AM, 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
>        
>
>

> Le lundi 14 mars 2011 à 14:37 -0700, Tony Fleig a écrit :
>
> > Very cool.
>
> > And just when I was about to forsake Smalltalk in favor of Javascript
> > for Web 2.0 apps. In my apps, the bulk of the intelligence is in the
> > client with the server is just doing simple RESTful stuff. It kind of
> > made server-side Smalltalk seem like overkill... But if I could use
> > Smalltalk for the client-side: awesome.
>
> > Works great in Firefox.
>
> > Safari complains about (I think) the use of "class" as a variable name
> > at line 746 in ide.js.
>
> I just fixed it, thanks. It should work in Safari now.
>
> Cheers,
> Nico
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Regards,
> > TF
>
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:36 AM, 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 14 mar, 18:52, Nicolas Petton <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Le lundi 14 mars 2011 à 14:37 -0700, Tony Fleig a écrit :
> >
> > > Very cool.
> >
> > > And just when I was about to forsake Smalltalk in favor of Javascript
> > > for Web 2.0 apps. In my apps, the bulk of the intelligence is in the
> > > client with the server is just doing simple RESTful stuff. It kind of
> > > made server-side Smalltalk seem like overkill... But if I could use
> > > Smalltalk for the client-side: awesome.
> >
> > > Works great in Firefox.
> >
> > > Safari complains about (I think) the use of "class" as a variable name
> > > at line 746 in ide.js.
> >
> > I just fixed it, thanks. It should work in Safari now.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nico
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > TF
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:36 AM, 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 14 Mar 2011, at 19:36, Nicolas Petton wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Really impressive!