devlog: postmortem for 2019

Pond.package/CarpEditor.class/README.md

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+I’m a simple editor with Carp code in it.

Pond.package/CarpEditor.class/instance/gtCheck.st

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+initialization
+gtCheck
+	<gtInspectorAction>
+	"TODO: make carp checker configurable"
+	^ GLMGenericAction new
+		action: [ GTInspector openOn: (CarpCheckExample new succeedingCarpChecker file: editor text asString; check) ];
+		icon: GLMUIThemeExtraIcons glamorousRefresh;
+		title: 'Check'

Pond.package/CarpEditor.class/instance/gtContent..st

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+initialization
+gtContent: aView
+	<gtInspectorPresentationOrder: 0>
+	(aView custom: editor)
+		title: 'Editor';
+		display: text

Pond.package/CarpEditor.class/instance/initialize.st

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+initialization
+initialize
+	text := ''.
+	"TODO: find out how to override the mode properly"
+	editor := GLMRubricHighlightedTextPresentation new withLineNumbers: true; editingMode: RubPlainTextMode new

Pond.package/CarpEditor.class/instance/text.st

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+initialization
+text
+	^ text

Pond.package/CarpEditor.class/properties.json

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+{
+	"commentStamp" : "VeitHeller 12/18/2019 21:39",
+	"super" : "Object",
+	"category" : "Pond",
+	"classinstvars" : [ ],
+	"pools" : [ ],
+	"classvars" : [ ],
+	"instvars" : [
+		"text",
+		"editor"
+	],
+	"name" : "CarpEditor",
+	"type" : "normal"
+}

README.md

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 ## More info
 
-You can read the [devlog](/devlog) where I document my progress daily.
+You can read the [devlog](/devlog) where I document my progress. Mostly you can
+see me fail, which is quite fun. The log as of now is a story of me trying to
+get started in one of the last weeks of 2019, getting sick, and not getting very
+far at all. I intend to carve out some more time soon.
 
 <hr/>
 

devlog/2019-12-18.md

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 ## Review
 
-Time worked:
+Time worked: 1:00
+
+I was able to make it kinda sorta work. I can open an unhighlighted Carp
+editor, play around in it, and try to check the results using a button that
+spits out the error in a new inspector for me. This isn’t quite what I
+envisioned, but all the pieces are there. I just need to connect the dots
+somehow now.

devlog/postmortem_01.md

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+# Postmortem: Building an IDE for Carp in Pharo in December 2019
+
+In the last week of 2019, I wanted to start building an IDE for Carp in Pharo
+Smalltalk. I was unable to make much headway during that time, and I was able
+to identify two factors that held me back:
+
+- Firstly, I was fairly inexperienced with the tools Pharo provides for working
+  with programming languages. While I am somewhat aware of SmaCC, FAMIX, and
+  Moose, I was not sure how they fit together, and I decided to focus on
+  creating a connection to the compiler and parsing it’s results myself first.
+  This proved to be annoyingly hard to do, which demotivated me.
+- I got sick. I was unable to work more than one or two hours a day due to a
+  cold, which of course slowed me down tremendously also, and obliterated
+  basically all of the motivation I still had left.
+
+In the end, I didn‘t get very far, but that‘s okay. I‘m not in a rush to get my
+ideas out and mostly investigate to satisfy my own self intellectual curiosity,
+misguided as it might or might not be.