Viewing profile — gokr

You mean COLA etc? Yeah, pretty wild stuff. I admit I couldn't fully grasp it at the time (and most likely not now either!) https://www.piumarta.com/software/cola/

Perhaps you are aware of who Alan Kay, Bret Victor, Ian etc are, but... anyway, I just wanted to chip in with some context for those who are not aware. Alan Kay led the creation an…

It all depends if you consider basically all non web GUIs developed the last 40 years or if you limit yourself to reactive web UIs developed the last few years. Tongue in cheek :) …

"hated all around the world" sounds a bit harsh :) Sure, lots of people like "throwing hate" at it, but AFAICT it's mostly "bad use" that gets people riled up like insane deep inhe…

This is kinda funny. I wrote a "rebuttal" article back in 2009: http://goran.krampe.se/2009/06/26/joe-is-wrong/ ...and then I met Joe not long after and we also discussed this in f…

Smalltalk is a family of dialects and implementations. Most of them are indeed compiled to bytecode which is then executed by a JIT VM. Most of them use the "image" concept where y…

Hehe!

I have worked extensively with Smalltalk, I know it quite well and it's my favorite language. I made SqueakMap and several other packages for Squeak. Still, it's not as simple as i…

They = me. I suppose you did it when Spry was still called Ni?

The general idea was to leverage Nim's capabilities, either as implementing core parts of standard libraries in Nim (which is very easy to do) or possibly by partial compilation us…

A lot of things including very good development speed, very good debugging capabilities, very good meta programming (making your own tools) etc. Try out Pharo.org for example.

Looking at my inspirations I would (take it with a grain of salt) say that Lisp and Forth are too simple, javascript is a mess (but with nice literal syntax for maps etc), Smalltal…

The multiuser stuff etc, I am temporarily too focused on other things so Spry is at "a hold" right now. I would also like to fix more things in the language before proceeding. The …

Just as a sidenote, there is: https://github.com/xyz32/boneIO ...and a while back I played too with: https://github.com/gokr/ardunimo Nim is quite perfect for these things since it…

I have been wanting to play with wrapping the ESP-IDF for Nim (using the excellent c2nim tool), but ... it appears to be a fairly hefty job. Although I am sure Araq could do it in …

I am not sure how incomprehensible it is, but I can say that the c2nim wrapper tool is pretty darn good. Andreas (author of Nim) quickly wrapped all of Urho3d in Nim almost fully a…

Well, I agree that the article can annoy some people. But... as an avid Smalltalker with a LOT of experience with it - and a lot of experience with Javascript too (and tons of othe…

A solid good enough reason is because it's fun! But in the specific case of Nim - AFAIK there aren't that many languages around with a similar set of characteristics. For me the ki…

Although I don't know much about Clean and APL - I definitely agree with Forth, Smalltalk and LISP as being very elegant in their own three unique ways. I am trying to combine aspe…

Hmmm, I find this slightly misleading. It was a long time ago that the original Smalltalk creators were involved in Squeak (Dan Ingalls is the main developer, Alan Kay the visionar…

The Smalltalk mechanism (Squeak/Pharo) also uses generate and test, just FYI.

Well, when I talk about polymorphism I of course mean the ability in the language to create first class polymorphic constructs. Hardwired things like [1] doesn't count :) Further, …

It's not as evolved yet - but funcs pull in arguments via :x and can instead use :$x (I used ^ earlier, but switched to $) which will pull in that AST node (argument) without evalu…