Literal arrays vs JSON vs STON vs Tirade

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:11:22 +0000

Recently there were a range of threads on the pharo-dev mailinglist discussing the textual format to use for Smalltalk source code metadata. The discussion veered off from the specific use case but basically four different formats were discussed and compared, of which one I am the author. And oh, sorry for the formatting of this article - I need to change theme on this blog for better readability.

Current Smalltalk obsessions...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:10 +0000

These days I am, as usual, torn between several interesting technical projects.

Amber Link to heading

The new Smalltalk called Amber (by Nicolas Petton) that compiles to javascript is pretty awesome and there are tons of interesting things one can do with it. My contributions so far include the beginning of a package model, a faster simpler chunk format exporter/importer, a command line compiler, a Makefile system so that Amber can be built fully from the command line and a bunch of examples running on top of Nodejs and webOS , and a few other odds and ends.

Smalltalk on Roads Less Taken

Literal arrays vs JSON vs STON vs Tirade

Current Smalltalk obsessions...

Amber Link to heading