Maybe we can start small. I've current needs that could well be handled in the environment.
The FileBrowser is in my view quite not used enough. When doing web applications, I deal with Javascript, CSS, content files etc all the time. The FileBrowser allows to edit files in its content pane. Doing an Accept (Alt-S) on the pane saves the file. So, instead of starting an external edit session in Vim, I mostly work there for some smaller changes (like tweaking CSS). Now, if we could have a syntax highlighter in there it would be nice. For CSS it wouldn't be too damn hard I think. Phil On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Jan Vrany <jan.vr...@fit.cvut.cz> wrote: > Hi Torsten, Phil, > > On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 14:18 +0200, Torsten Bergmann wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > > > if there is something I would like to see our Pharo ecosystem and ST in > general moving > > towards is to such a "multilanguage"/"multisourcecode"/"flexible > ressources" kind of > > thing. Even when this could not be a short term goal I would like to see > this > > in the long term. > > I've been working in this area for many years now. And have learned a > good deal while doing that :-) > Making one language to execute within other's environment is the easy > part, though it could be a lot of work (especially, if you care about > performance). Making tools to be aware of different languages is not > hard too, thought it is "just" a huge amount of work that has to be > done. The tricky part is to allow one to talk to each other, preserving > each other's semantics and still stay intuitive, clear and free of > unnecessary boilerplate code. Another tricky bit is to make other > workflows and ways of coding things in other languages work nicely with > the way Smalltalk way we do it in Smalltalk. These are tough bits. > That's where a real research has yet to be done... > > > - running Java inside of Smalltalk/X > > Well, Smalltalk/X can do much more with Java than "just" run it. > Java has been fully integrated into development tools supporting full > development cycle :-) > > >
