Re:Explorative Programming
by brabel on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @08:01AM
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Your ideas sounded very much like a mixup of Common Lisp with SLIME, Smalltalk interactivity and Unison-like storage of code in a database instead of files.
I've tried all of them, I think the closest thing I've seen to what you describe, which I also find very attractive, is the GT Smalltalk environment: https://gtoolkit.com/
Have you tried that? They call this idea "moldable development" as you can "mold" your environment to your needs.
Even though I loved it, I ended up not using it much, mostly because it's a bit too heavy to keep handy for exploration all the time when needed (it takes like 1GB of RAM even when idle!)... as I already can do most of that with emacs, which is much lighter, I just stick with it.
Re:Explorative Programming
by MarceColl on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @08:37AM
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Someone sent an email last night about gtoolkit, I didn't know about it and I wanna try it. Right now I'm following another suggestion with Interlisp that also had some similar ideas, but that will come right after! Thanks for the suggestion!
I've tried all of them, I think the closest thing I've seen to what you describe, which I also find very attractive, is the GT Smalltalk environment: https://gtoolkit.com/
Have you tried that? They call this idea "moldable development" as you can "mold" your environment to your needs.
Even though I loved it, I ended up not using it much, mostly because it's a bit too heavy to keep handy for exploration all the time when needed (it takes like 1GB of RAM even when idle!)... as I already can do most of that with emacs, which is much lighter, I just stick with it.