JAjasonjmcghee·Sep 4, 2025Submission
The Moldable Development Environment
1 points · Open discussionfeenkcom
gtoolkit
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Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment. It empowers you to make systems explainable through contextual micro tools.
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Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment. It empowers you to make systems explainable through contextual micro tools.
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I thought Bloc was low level like Morphic. If not, I'll have to look into Bloc. I have been using Moose for my data viz needs, and playing with Pharo. I love GT (the Glamorous…
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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8 sourcesThank you for the describing the interest.
You do not have to read the handbook to format the text. You can use Markdown in a text snippet :). This gives you a compressed overview:
https://book.gtoolkit.com/understanding-lepiter-in-7--6n7q1o...
> I know to really use it, I have to learn to program it, but I am also of the mind basic functionality should be self explanatory. And pharo itself as the basis of this seems so convoluted and complex...
We use Pharo as a programming language for building the system, and most extensions are expected to be written in it. It's possible to connect to other runtimes, like Python or JS, and extend the object inspector that works with remote objects using those languages. But overall, learning Pharo is a bit of a prerequisite. I certainly understand that it can appear foreign, but convoluted and complex
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are not an attributes I would associate with it :).
Now, in GT, the environment is built from the ground up anew and it's different from classic interfaces found in Pharo or Cuis. And of course, it's different from typical development environment, too, because we wanted to build a different kind of interface in which visualization is a first class entity.
Our community is indeed on Discord a lot, but we also host discussions on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit/discussions
In any case, I am happy you find the need for "a great knowledge base and data visualization" relevant and useful.
> i have actively explored working with pharo.
Then you must already know more than me, about what's available now.
Too much? https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit
> … given the image based development you tend to start with a current version of pharo and then keep to that version until you are done.
I think of it as image based development: not image based version control.
In Pharo 12I presume it's https://gtoolkit.com/ and https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit#readme but they just didn't bother checking their hyperlinks for correctness
In Lepiter: Knowledge Mgmt and Multi-Lang Notebooks and Moldable DevAn interesting project for devs is Glamorous Toolkit (https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit) as an experiment/exploration of better dev tooling.
In Pharo 9gtoolkit is quite amazing
https://gtoolkit.com/
https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit
In The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)Glamorous Toolkit is the moldable development environment
1 points · Open discussionI thought Bloc was low level like Morphic. If not, I'll have to look into Bloc. I have been using Moose for my data viz needs, and playing with Pharo. I love GT (the Glamorous Toolkit)[1]. Will that be affected by Bloc? Smalltalk, Pharo in my case, is always refreshing and surprising. I have just not learned it enough to build anything complex yet, but that's on me. It's a great environment.
[1] https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit
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