[Cuis-dev] Slang for Cuis (WIP, experimental)

[Casey Ransberger]

I think it’s a brilliant idea myself, in fact I’ve thought of trying to do exactly what you’re doing for years, but it seemed a rather large project, and I have only modified a Squeak VM once in my life to do a very small thing, so I worried that I might not have the area knowledge to do the job.

It always seemed a bit odd to me that the Slang language, the GUI tool that comes with VMMaker, and the VM source code were all one big monolithic thing. With a Slang translator teased away from the VM stuff, it seems like I could write C programs in a subset of Smalltalk and conveniently test them in simulation. Unleashing Smalltalk’s powerful debugging tools on what ends up being a C program is pretty attractive.

I’m glad someone is trying this.

—Casey

> On May 16, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Philip Bernhart via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I started with dissecting Slang out of the Cuis VMMaker packages
> and VMMakerJS (SqeakJS) project into a couple of packages
> which could be used for generating anything besides VM plugins.
> 
> Atleast that's my intentiont, I don't yet know of how that
> project idea will pan out, atleast I intend to learn something
> of how Slang works and how it's generated.
> 
> It's currently highly expiremental, but I got some of the
> existing VMMaker testscases "green" and so I thought I could
> share the current state of it. Maybe the whole idea of using
> it outside the VMMaker is not so a good idea, maybe,
> maybe not :-)
> 
> My project repository of it is here:
>  https://github.com/Phantasus/Cuis-Smalltalk-Slang
> 
> So what do you think?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Philip
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