getting started with cuis smalltalk
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My talk in Smalltalks2013, UTN Rosario, October 31, 2013.TRANSCRIPT
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
"Yay, Juan. You GO, guy! ...a great example of malleable software (and a clever mind) at work." Dan Ingalls
"I like it... It's nice and clean and simple and pretty. Nice stuff!" Alan Kay "I think you have a very elegant design aesthetic." John Maloney
"Cuis represents the best of Squeak: Elegant simplicity, high quality, and a sense of vision... I really do appreciate Cuis.""It has a clean, crisp feel and is a pleasure to use." David T. Lewis
"It's one of the smallest, definitely the fastest, and probably the best structured (Squeak) kernel that has been built." Andreas Raab
"If you would like to see Morphic done beautifully, ...check out Cuis. ...I simply cannot rave enough about how wonderful an experience it's been to work with." Casey Ransberger
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
Who I'm?
● Germán S. Arduino● Software Developer and Researcher● Focused in Information Security and Special Projects● Founder and Owner of Arduino Software● Chief of R&D at Grupo Sancor Seguros● Long time Smalltalker and loving it more each day● About.me/garduino
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
What is Cuis Smalltalk?
● A complete development environment written in itself● A pure Object Oriented language● A Smalltalk-80 environment derived from Squeak● Simple, small, clean● Open source, free and multiplatform● Developed in Argentina by Juan Vuletich
http://www.jvuletich.org/aboutMe.html
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
How Cuis is different?
● Active attitude towards system complexity
● Code Quality
● Simplicity
● Code Management
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
How Cuis is different?
● Cuis evolves in a controlled way. I can follow it!2/3 mails / day are an average that permit me to keep updated with the Cuis progress and sometimes contribute!
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
How Cuis is different?
● Cuis evolves in a controlled way. I can follow it!2/3 mails / day are an average that permit me to keep updated with the Cuis progress and sometimes contribute!
● CompactBelow 500 Classes, 100KLoC, 8MB base image (3,6MB after #reduceCuis)A comparison of number of classes:eToys 5.0: 2236 Squeak 4.4: 2511 Pharo 2.0: 3226 Cuis 4.2: 496
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
Some of the main ideas and goals for Cuis:● Close to the ideas in Smalltalk-80 and "Design
Principles Behind Smalltalk"● Includes only kernel functionality + dev tools● Includes a greatly simplified and enhanced Morphic as
the main UI● Reasonably stable. Smalltalk kernel should not
change much
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
Some of the main ideas and goals for Cuis:● Full support of Closures● It works with Cog or Stack VM
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
What is the audience? ● Smalltalkers who want a simple and consistent
system they can really master● Teachers and students learning Smalltalk● Developers working for devices with little memory or
CPU power● People wanting to experiment with new directions in
language design, UI frameworks, etc
Getting Started with Cuis Smalltalk
What is the audience? ● People wanting a reasonable kernel on which to build
optional packages
● MicroISV programmers (See my talk “Smalltalk and MicroISV's”: http://www.slideshare.net/garduino1/smalltalk-and-microisvs)
Packages in Cuis
● The packages implementation in Cuis 4 is based in PackageInfo
● It uses Package names to prefix Classes and Methods categories
● More details in http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3329
● Extension is .pck.st
Code Management in Cuis
Packages ● Code that is not part of the core image should be
stored in packages (Examples: Applications, Frameworks, Libraries)
Cuis Code● Patches, fixes, code that is meant to be part of Cuis
and that do not belong to any package is automatically stored in Change Sets
Packages Dependency
● Packages implement provides / requires
● Packages can specify dependencies on features
● Include version / version.revision
● Automatically numbered by Cuis
● When a package is installed, its requirements are loaded in proper order
● A package may be installed using the FileList or from a workspace with
Feature require: 'Swazoo'
Code Management in Cuis
Code Management in Cuis
Code Management in Cuis
ChangeSets (Cuis core code)
● Manages only code of Cuis Core image
● Code not in packages is captured into changesets
● Named in the form:1827-CPUWatcherFix-GermanArduino-2013Sep19-09h20m-gsa.1.cs.st
● Managed automatically, not need of make them 'current' or 'active' (“make the changes goes to me”)
● Load changeset with 'FileIn' or 'Install'
Demo Time
Packages availables
Aida Web Swazoo Sport Yaxo
JSON RegEx Artefact WebClient
Crypto-NaCl Cryptography FFI Linear-Algebra
Styled Text Editor
Signal Processing
Network SandstoneDB
Simple Logger SQLite PetitParser Cypress
ContentPack Solitaire Interlingua Dict Ropes
Work in Progress
* Morphic 3 Referenceshttp://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/Morphic3-200911.htmlhttp://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/Morphic3-201006.htmlhttp://www.fast.org.ar/smalltalks2009/videos/Cuis+and+Morphic+3
Morphic 3 * OpenShift Comanche Iliad
UI Zinc
Community
● English Mailing List [email protected]● Spanish talks about Cuis also in
[email protected]● Cuis Web Site http://www.cuis-smalltalk.org● Juan's Place: http://www.jvuletich.org● GitHub Home of Cuis:
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
Community
● Author/Admin: Juan Vuletich● Contributors:
Bernhard Pieber Germán Arduino
Casey Ransberger Hannes Hirzel
Ken Dickey *** Your name here ***
Final Words
Questions?
Final Words
Thanks You!