>>I haven't had a chance to try this, but am I right in that this is simply invoking Smalltalk code from Newspeak? Or is there more going on that I've missed?
Pretty much, yea.
I've found that it's easy to start a Newspeak image headlessly on Linux (on my Sputnik Dell XPS laptop with ubuntu 12.04 LTS), so I think deploying a website would be similar to the way I just did the new squeak.org homepage.
I've played with Seaside in Squeak a lot. What's nice about making a website in a new language is it gives an immediate paradigm. I'm doing it in Self at the moment as well. Trying to build a familiar thing, a website, in a new language is great way to come to terms with a new language.
My grasp of Newspeak is rudimentary so far. The Twitter example uses FFI to access curl ( if I read it correctly ). The virtual machine Eliot works on has all that's needed for web development, I think. The more I grasp the language, I hope the less to use blackMarket and Smalltalk. I could deploy the example I mentioned with Andreas Raab's WebClient to the internet on Linux right now, but it's a tad trivial even for me.
>>And what are your plans going forward?
Fumble and iterate until I am making a decent enough website in Newspeak in localhost and then deploy it online.
What would you like to see a Newspeak website do?
Chris
>>I haven't had a chance to try this, but am I right in that this is simply invoking Smalltalk code from Newspeak? Or is there more going on that I've missed?Pretty much, yea.
I've found that it's easy to start a Newspeak image headlessly on Linux (on my Sputnik Dell XPS laptop with ubuntu 12.04 LTS), so I think deploying a website would be similar to the way I just did the new squeak.org homepage.
I've played with Seaside in Squeak a lot. What's nice about making a website in a new language is it gives an immediate paradigm. I'm doing it in Self at the moment as well. Trying to build a familiar thing, a website, in a new language is great way to come to terms with a new language.
My grasp of Newspeak is rudimentary so far. The Twitter example uses FFI to access curl ( if I read it correctly ).
What would you like to see a Newspeak website do?