Robert Klemme
3/22/2006 4:06:00 PM
John Lam wrote:
> I know there are some Smalltalk folks who hang out here, so I'd like to pose
> perhaps a fairly ignorant question:
>
> How far away is irb from a Smalltalk development environment?
>
> Put another way, what must need to be done to get to a Smalltalk development
> environment? Will being able to load / save image files get me closer (have
> folks done this by serializing the ObjectSpace tree to disk already)? Or am
> I just going to have to experience it for myself to get the gestalt of
> Smalltalk IDEs?
<disclaimer>Not being a Smalltalk guy myself...</disclaimer>
I'd guess that it's quite a long way from IRB to a modern Smalltalk IDE:
IRB doesn't have a graphical UI for example. But I've heard there are
quite a number of decent Ruby IDE's out there.
Note also, that marshaling object graphs doesn't help here because that
doesn't capture methods. So the tool would have to keep track of
defined variables and methods and store them somehow.
Kind regards
robert