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