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Mobile Smalltalk

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102 pointsmpweiher11 comments

Not dictating anything, but if the reasons for not releasing it are "it's not feature-complete" and "I don't have time to make it feature-complete" wouldn't releasing it as free software and let others extend it be the solution?

Edit: excuses didn't ring well. Reasons is more neutral

Doesn't seem like he wants to release it as free software.

Yes, I get that. I was just wondering why, given the started reasons.

You would still need a commercial license for Smalltalk. And he might still get a lot of questions or demands for features.

Yes, very cool!

A bit off topic, but I would pay good money for a well done port of Pharo Smalltalk to the iPad. Not sure what the issues would be for Apple to permit this. There are good Haskell and Python IDEs for the iPad: Raskell and Pythonista

You’d have to ask the developers what the current status is, but I see the Pharo VM does have an iOS directory. https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/Cog/p...

> Not sure what the issues would be for Apple to permit this.

None as long as you don't provide a way to run code downloaded on the fly.

You'd have to rewrite the entire UI though.

Also being more UI-centric I always thought a good port[0] of Self/Morphic could work very nicely.

[0] good being the operative word, the default is both ugly and requiring too precise interaction for a touch panel

Was sort of hacking on a similar project w/ JavaScript / React Native as the UI system: https://youtu.be/9mrBH_a0eIs

Have had less time to hack on it lately tho!

To me, this is a 10x developer. Some developers make an app for their side project (which I assume this is) -- but they made a whole interop with their own VM just to make an app.

Incredible stuff.

Such a shame he has no plans to release it, even if just so others could learn from it.

So cool.

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