Ping
Saturday, March 31st, 2007I haven’t had much time to post - not to mention hack - lately, so just to keep both of my loyal readers (hi mom! I’m on teh internets) informed here is short summary of things to come:
- For the moment I have put the Squeak stuff on a backburner, it looks promising but would take too much time right now. Though I’m tempted to play with Seaside since it looks like a very neat framework and being clueless about web apps I’m naturally curious about them.
- When I get some time I’m going to clean up some rough edges of PAL and see that it works on Linux, so Release 2 is coming up soon. I might write some documentation for it, but I’m not sure if any one is really interested in it so…
- I need to get some real work done and stop fooling with useless academic languages ;) Or at least I need to decide which one of them I’m going to use. Current choices:
1. Common Lisp
The one I’m most familiar with. Expressive, fast and easy to use. But I have doubts about SBCL/Win32 being ready for commercial desktop apps. Does it work with Vista?
2. Ocaml
So far I like it but I’m still some 3 times less productive with it, I don’t have any opengl framework ready for it (I do have some simple SDL stuff) and there aren’t any good IDEs (read: emacs modes) for it, atleast nothing like SLIME. It produces small .exes and I guess the Windows port is more stable than SBCL.
3. MzScheme
It’s much slower than SBCL or Ocaml but it has solid Mac and Windows ports and lots of libraries. Plus I’m more familiar with Scheme than Ocaml (and I (like (the syntax) more)). No decent IDEs thought…
