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Re:RubyMotion pros and cons by chc on Friday May 04, 2012 @05:08PM (#3930372)
Ah, this is a little bit embarrassing. I had somehow read your comment as meaning that somebody should make something like RubyMotion but with Smalltalk, with the REPL being a neat incentive. Rereading, I see that was totally in my head. Sorry. No idea what I was thinking, but it's too late to delete it now. I suppose my brain just saw "Smalltalk" and "iOS" in the same sentence and got worked up.

But incidentally, do you happen to know offhand of any resources about adding new compilers like you were talking about? That sounds pretty neat. I unfortunately missed the golden age of Smalltalk, so most of what I know comes from playing around with Squeak and GNU Smalltalk and reading about older implementations.

Re:RubyMotion pros and cons by stcredzero on Friday May 04, 2012 @05:21PM (#3930408)
But incidentally, do you happen to know offhand of any resources about adding new compilers like you were talking about? That sounds pretty neat.

The examples for the T-Gen compiler compiler in VisualWorks Smalltalk talked a little about this, and had a toy SQL example. IIRC, there was a <pragma: > you could put in a method to use your own Compiler object. Also, Smalltalk/X actually let you implement methods in C right in the Smalltalk class browser.

Unfortunately, a lot of documentation and other info are lost in the mists of time.