Peter Fisk
2013-02-10 21:14:29 UTC
"Mobile Smalltalk" (MOST) is a variant of the Smalltalk language that is designed specifically to run in mobile devices.
MOST compiles Smalltalk code to JavaScript which is then run in the mobile device browser environment.
Blog/User Support:
http://mobilesmalltalk.com/
Online Developer Site:
http://mobiyoda.com/
MOST is built with the Sencha Mobile Framework (http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-1) and is packaged as native apps for both Google Android tablets and Apple iPad.
The Android version has been accepted to the Google Play online store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilesmalltalk.mobilesmalltalk
The IOS version is awaiting acceptance review for Apple's iTunes online store.
Next version (MOST 1.1) will have the ability to download Smalltalk code from the online development directly into the installed tablet MOST runtime.
MOST is a direct descendent of QuickSilver Smalltalk which I released a couple of years ago.
The tablet market (estimated 240 million sold this year) is in serious need of new programming concepts. And Apple has set up all kinds of rules to keep out interpreted languages:
Apple’s developer program license states that:
3.3.2. An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple’s built-in WebKit framework.
MOST runs entirely with the Safaria Webkit framework in IOS.
So, maybe Smalltalk's time has finally come on mobile devices.
(iPad + MOST = Dynabook) ?
-- Peter Fisk
MOST compiles Smalltalk code to JavaScript which is then run in the mobile device browser environment.
Blog/User Support:
http://mobilesmalltalk.com/
Online Developer Site:
http://mobiyoda.com/
MOST is built with the Sencha Mobile Framework (http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-1) and is packaged as native apps for both Google Android tablets and Apple iPad.
The Android version has been accepted to the Google Play online store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilesmalltalk.mobilesmalltalk
The IOS version is awaiting acceptance review for Apple's iTunes online store.
Next version (MOST 1.1) will have the ability to download Smalltalk code from the online development directly into the installed tablet MOST runtime.
MOST is a direct descendent of QuickSilver Smalltalk which I released a couple of years ago.
The tablet market (estimated 240 million sold this year) is in serious need of new programming concepts. And Apple has set up all kinds of rules to keep out interpreted languages:
Apple’s developer program license states that:
3.3.2. An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple’s built-in WebKit framework.
MOST runs entirely with the Safaria Webkit framework in IOS.
So, maybe Smalltalk's time has finally come on mobile devices.
(iPad + MOST = Dynabook) ?
-- Peter Fisk