Newspeak
Newspeak is a new programming language in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk.
Newspeak is delivered via the web. It is as a PWA (Progressive Web App). This means that you can install it locally on your device, and then run it without needing an internet connection.
Building, Just In Case
If you feel you must rebuild the system from scratch, here's how:
Set up a directory for your work, say, nswasm
mkdir nswasm
cd nswasm
and then clone this repo under it.
In the same directory, clone https://github.com/newspeaklanguage/primordialsoup.
To be clear: you should now have a directory named nswasm, with two subdirectories; newspeak, containing this repository, and primordialsoup, containing https://github.com/newspeaklanguage/primordialsoup.
Follow the instructions at
https://github.com/newspeaklanguage/primordialsoup/blob/master/docs/building.md
in the primordialsoup repo to set up the required dependencies for primordialsoup, and switch to the extraRevs branch.
cd primordialsoup
git checkout extraRevs
You'll also want to download CodeMirror from https://codemirror.net/.
Place it in the top level of the newspeak repo.
In the top level of the newspeak repository, you should find the script build.sh. It assumes Emscripten is in ~/software/emsdk/; you will want to adjust that to reflect where you have installed emscripten.
Running build.sh should build the psoup VM as well as the vfuel file for the Newspeak IDE.
source build.sh
HopscotchWebIDE.vfuel should now exist in the ./out subdirectory of the newspeak repository.
You can access it by running a web server, using the serve.sh script:
source serve.sh
The serve.sh script will run a python web server and will tell you that you can access the IDE by pointing a web browser at:
http://localhost:8080/primordialsoup.html?snapshot=HopscotchWebIDE.vfuel
You can edit server.py to change the port used. It is often convenient to have the web server running all the time.
If you make changes to the Newspeak code used in the IDE, just run build.sh again.
Another option is to rebuild the vfuel file for the IDE, and copy it into the electron application. That way you don't need to run a web server. The script updateApp.sh provides a template for this. On a mac, it should work out of the box:
source updateApp.sh
Otherwise, you'll need to modify it as described in the script.