As far as I can see, the only way to call external Javascript is by writing Javascript-Code directly into a method like so: doSomethingWith: anObject {'return SOMELIBRARY.doSomething(anObject); '} is this correct? The OMETA based Smalltalk->JS translator seem to let one use st-syntax for direct access to javascript like so: doSomethingWith: anObject [ SOMELIBRARY doSomething: anObject. ] and CoffeeScript can use JS seamlessly in the same way. Best regards, RD On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Nicolas Petton <petton.nicolas@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi,
I would like to share a project I'm working on on my spare time: Jtalk Smalltalk.
http://nicolaspetton.github.com/jtalk https://github.com/NicolasPetton/jtalk
Jtalk is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that compiles into JavaScript.
Some features: - it is written in itself (including the parser/compiler) - it is self-contained - it compiles into efficient JS code - it uses the Squeak chunk format - Pharo is considered as the reference implementation
I think Jtalk can be compared to CoffeeScript[1], Objective-J[2] or Clamato[3], from which it reuses some ideas and code.
Jtalk includes an IDE with a class browser, transcript and workspace, an HTML canvas similar to Seaside and a jQuery binding.
It is still a young piece of code, and some important features are still missing/incomplete.
Cheers, Nicolas Petton
[1] http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ [2] http://cappuccino.org/ [3] http://clamato.net