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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.