I played around with Pharo some time in 2017 or 2018, making a Minesweeper clone in it.
I really _really_ like environments where rapid and immediate iteration is possible, especially for any project with any artistry or exploration in its construction. One thing is that (in some cases) you see intermediate, emergent, or unintended results you'd not have seen otherwise.
Although not a particularly interesting unintended result, a logic problem (iirc) had the Minesweeper expand happen with each action (i.e. propagating cleared cells with each step rather than in an instant).
lynndotpy
Nice!
So I assume this is the byte code interpreter compiled with Emscriptem? Didn’t Squeak have a similar try it out page?
I would assume there’s no attempt at Jitting or pre-compiling some of the image code, which would be a feat given Smalltalk dynamic nature and webassembly limited execution model.
I was hopping to have something like this to play with. How can you build the code?
ajasmin
I've never used Pharo before, but in my firefox it renders up and to the left too much. I'm not sure how the mouse is translated to the canvas but it seems like there is an issue with it (or vice versa and it's the weird canvas scaling). Removing `transform: scale(calc(1 / var(--world-dpr, 1)));` from the canvas css seems to fix it for me though.
Cieric
I was hoping it was the 1999 video game alas
simonsarris
How come it is much snappier and uses less CPU than the same native version? I honestly don't understand how this is possible.
mike_ivanov
Neat concept for playing with Pharo...but doesn't having it in the browser kinda defeat the purpose?
AdmiralAsshat
I wandered about this a while ago, when VSCode went into Web. Later, after realizing how much download had to take place to have a remote OS ran, again the experience is very hacky with current hardware to software friction. It needs lots of drivers and resources to align experience with an actual OS.
simultsop
It seems to break when zooming in/out on Firefox (Linux). Zooming in reduces the size of the viewport and makes clicking the mouse happen somewhere else.
popcar2
This webapp seems to break the back button on Android.
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I really _really_ like environments where rapid and immediate iteration is possible, especially for any project with any artistry or exploration in its construction. One thing is that (in some cases) you see intermediate, emergent, or unintended results you'd not have seen otherwise.
Although not a particularly interesting unintended result, a logic problem (iirc) had the Minesweeper expand happen with each action (i.e. propagating cleared cells with each step rather than in an instant).
lynndotpy
So I assume this is the byte code interpreter compiled with Emscriptem? Didn’t Squeak have a similar try it out page?
I would assume there’s no attempt at Jitting or pre-compiling some of the image code, which would be a feat given Smalltalk dynamic nature and webassembly limited execution model.
I was hopping to have something like this to play with. How can you build the code?
ajasmin
Cieric
simonsarris
mike_ivanov
AdmiralAsshat
simultsop
popcar2
treyd