74 points xkriva11 2 hours ago 16 comments
simultsop 2 hours ago | parent
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.
pjmlp 42 minutes ago | parent
VSCode started in the Web actually, as the Monaco web editor for Azure.
rvz 2 hours ago | parent
Obviously this post has been boosted quickly and mysteriously in 16 mins and it feels quite premature and it doesn't even look remarkable at all.
Use with caution.
xkriva11 1 hour ago | parent
As the author of this post, I have to say that I, too, was surprised by how well it's doing. But people at HN are generally very receptive to Lisp/Smalltalk posts, and lately, at least one Smalltalk-related post has appeared on the front page every week.
AdmiralAsshat 1 hour ago | parent
Neat concept for playing with Pharo...but doesn't having it in the browser kinda defeat the purpose?
popcar2 1 hour ago | parent
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.
ajasmin 41 minutes ago | parent
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?