Hi Robert, did you see http://scg.unibe.ch/research/helvetia? Bye T.
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2015 um 18:33 Uhr Von: "Robert Withers" <robert.w.withers@gmail.com> An: pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org Betreff: [Pharo-dev] Mult-language browsers - MLB (was: Re: Random forest in Pharo)
On 10/15/2015 11:57 AM, Robert Withers wrote:
On 10/15/2015 11:46 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
but well⦠in the mean time we learn and do steps. We will have a cool FFI, donât worry⦠sooner than later :D
I was thinking about ASMJIT and it's audience. You may attract a broader audience with JVMJIT, including JNI. That would be something, then support cross-calling between Pharo, Newspeak, Groovy, Scala and Java plus dynamic jar loading. You'd need an army to pull that off though.
Please excuse the reply to the reply, but I was thinking about a JVMJIT and cross-calling. The key to me, experientially, is to have the same browser for all languages. We need a multi-language browser, a MLB.
Depending on the CompiledMethod selected, pick the right set of parsers: compiler, pretty printer, code completion, type inferencer and the MLB's method pane would be an editor for the language specified in the compiled method.
Furthermore, to support cross-calling, when you are working is a specific language, you can set that as the interaction language and the browser will present interfaces from other languages in the language you have selected, such that a cross-call is really just a native call to an auto-generated wrapper around the other language.
Think of Cincom's Distributed Smalltalk talking Corba with their I3 (Implicit Invocation Interface): http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/documentation/VisualWorks/DSTAppDevGuide...
I found this thread on Corba and Squeak: http://squeak-dev.squeakfoundation.narkive.com/AbWTL8Kh/smalltalk-and-corba. Bringing I3 support, into the browser would offer the foundations for the MLB.
Any feedback is really appreciated!
Regards, Robert