Good work
Thanks. :)
Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects
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#22Sounds amazing. How do I distribute my Quark application? Is there a way to bundle a sketch as an executable that will look for a suitable Quark runtime and if not found, run an installer?
I had that initially on my road-map and that surely could be done. I have a few ideas on how to implement a "no runtime found" situation, but that is not happening in near future.
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#23Screenshots give me a major Visual Studio Code vibe. Is it a fork/reskin? Is that why there's a delay in releasing the source?
„Quark comes built in with a powerful code-editor. The same code editor that powers the VS Code (monaco-editor). This means you get out of the box support for Intellisense, code completion, “Go to Definition”, reference search and Quick navigation (Cmd+P).”
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#24> ...felt a need for a software tool that would help me do things like — plot charts, app prototyping, create dashboards/GUI’s for my personal projects etc. I just needed “some place” to write my code, build small projects or test new ideas. To much of my own surprise, I could not find an easy way to do so.
to the author: Congrats on building and delivering on what's a pretty significant undertaking.
That being said, Smalltalk has had the capabilities you were looking for, for ages, and the tools are incredibly polished because they've been around for so long. On a related note Glamorous Toolkit https://gtoolkit.com/ takes those capabilities and points them at development itself allowing you to use them to help figure out what your code and data are / are doing.
This is an interesting project, but it's just the beginning of recreating what already exists in Pharo smalltalk. https://pharo.org/
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, Quark is a trademark of a software company, who's lawyers will eventually be in touch http://www.quark.com/About_Quark/Legal/
Yeah, Quark's lawyers are not shy and quite aggressive.
Can confirm. The name will have to be changed.
And to the app's creators: Don't change the name to InDesign.
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#26Any relation to https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark ?
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#27> files you create inside the IDE are virtual files with no foot print on your real file system. This is done to make sharing a project as easy as sharing a single file.
This sounds like it would prevent the proper use of version control systems like git, which seems like a terrible idea. Is my interpretation correct?
It seems like it would be better to develop with normal files (and the decades of powerful tools that can operate on them), and then bundle into one file for distribution.
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#28> ...felt a need for a software tool that would help me do things like — plot charts, app prototyping, create dashboards/GUI’s for my personal projects etc. I just needed “some place” to write my code, build small projects or test new ideas. To much of my own surprise, I could not find an easy way to do so. to the author: Congrats on building and delivering on what's a pretty significant undertaking. That being said,…
That would involve starting from scratch learning a new language and framework, and projects could no longer graduate to be web apps, or benefit from the much larger Javascript/web ecosystem.
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#29Congratulations on your release! With Adobe Air you could make executables with html/css/js (or flash). End users had to have the Adobe Air runtime installed to run the apps. Can you help understand if the concept you have here is much different than, or much the same as the Adobe Air concept?
Re: Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects
#30Congratulations on your release! With Adobe Air you could make executables with html/css/js (or flash). End users had to have the Adobe Air runtime installed to run the apps. Can you help understand if the concept you have here is much different than, or much the same as the Adobe Air concept?
Well the first difference here is that Quark is a free software, Adobe Air is not.
I din't know enough about adobe Air to comment on technical differences, but one thing that strikes me is that electron(as hence Quark) appears to be more popular than Adobe Air.