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
>
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>  a move in an appealing direction!
>
>
>
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> On Mar 14, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Nicolas Petton 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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> 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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> 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!

> 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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> Hello Nicolas
>
> You mentioned the jtalk is a compiler.
>
> I did in the workspace
>
> 1 to: 10 do: [ :i | Transcript show: (i printString, ' ',(i*i)
> printString, ' ', (i*i*i) printString); cr]. Transcript cr.
>
> And the result showed in the Transcript.
>
> Is there a place to see the translation of the Smalltalk code?
>
> Or put the question otherwise: how do I use the compiler?
>

> Am 19.03.2011 um 13:55 schrieb Hannes Hirzel:
>
> > Hello Nicolas
> >
> > You mentioned the jtalk is a compiler.
> >
> > I did in the workspace
> >
> > 1 to: 10 do: [ :i | Transcript show: (i printString, ' ',(i*i)
> > printString, ' ', (i*i*i) printString); cr]. Transcript cr.
> >
> > And the result showed in the Transcript.
> >
> > Is there a place to see the translation of the Smalltalk code?
> >
> > Or put the question otherwise: how do I use the compiler?
> >
> To see the code I would use
>
> Compiler new compileExpression: '3 + 4'
>
> in the workspace. If you print it you get
>
>  'smalltalk.method({
> selector: "doIt",
> source: unescape("doIt%20%5E%5B3%20+%204%5D%20value"),
> fn: function(){
> var self=this;
> return (function(){return (3).__plus((4));})._value();
> return self;}
> })'
>
> If you execute it you use
>
> Compiler new loadExpression: '3 + 4'