[Pharo-users] ANN: Smalltalk Express Blog

Hi everyone, I have started a new blog to discuss the "Smalltalk Express" framework. https://smalltalkexpress.quora.com/ Smalltalk Express is web development framework using a Smalltalk interpreter written in the "Go" language. The first blog post provides some details and a video. A few month

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Argument

Thank you Joachim! That is the most honest assessment of the situation of Smalltalk in 2017 that I have ever seen. And I agree with you 100%. We need a new Smalltalk which is both "cool" and can seamlessly integrate with all of the latest web technologies. I will be releasing a new Smalltalk fr

Re: [Pharo-users] "Building-With versus Building-on"

Thanks for posting this. It is one of the best descriptions of the state of the software industry that I have seen. On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Andrew Glynn wrote: > https://medium.com/@dasein42/building-with-versus-building-on-c51aa3034c71 > > > This is an article not *specifically* abo

[Pharo-users] Rails Express Demo Using Pharo Seaside

I have added a new blog post showing how I am using Pharo Smalltalk and Seaside to rapidly create Ruby-on-Rails applications. https://railsexpress.quora.com/Pharo-Seaside-Express There is also a short video showing a simple application running

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6.0 Generating Ruby-on-Rails Applications

Hi Phil, I already have PHP support for CodeIgniter and Laravel. Adding support for Zend Framework might take a day or so to implement. Any framework which supports MVC and AJAX should be fairly easy to integrate (eg Python/Django, NodeJS/Adonis, etc). The main difference amongst the frameworks

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6.0 Generating Ruby-on-Rails Applications

Hi everyone,The RailsExpress.com website will be updated over the coming days to reflect what I am currently working on in Pharo 6.0.I have found that the "Smalltalk like" environment in Ruby isn't powerful enough to implement a fully automated web application generator.That is why I changed to Pha

[Pharo-users] Pharo 6.0 Generating Ruby-on-Rails Applications

a.com/Pharo-6-Generating-Ruby-on-Rails-Applications> I mostly programmed in Smalltalk from 1987 until 1997 using ParcPlace VisualWorks and then IBM VisualAge.Pharo is now better than either of those two frameworks.Congratulations to the Pharo team for all your great work!Regards,-- Peter Fisk