[masukomi]

> ...felt a need for a software tool that would help me do things like — plot charts, app prototyping, create dashboards/GUI’s for my personal projects etc. I just needed “some place” to write my code, build small projects or test new ideas. To much of my own surprise, I could not find an easy way to do so.

to the author: Congrats on building and delivering on what's a pretty significant undertaking.

That being said, Smalltalk has had the capabilities you were looking for, for ages, and the tools are incredibly polished because they've been around for so long. On a related note Glamorous Toolkit https://gtoolkit.com/ takes those capabilities and points them at development itself allowing you to use them to help figure out what your code and data are / are doing.

This is an interesting project, but it's just the beginning of recreating what already exists in Pharo smalltalk. https://pharo.org/

[mkl]

That would involve starting from scratch learning a new language and framework, and projects could no longer graduate to be web apps, or benefit from the much larger Javascript/web ecosystem.

[nishkalkashyap]

I would disagree. What Quark offers is much more. You don't have to learn a new language. You have access to this massive javascript ecosystem. And it has out of the box support for React.js, Vue.js, Typescript and toolings like webpack that developers love.

[nimnio]

> You don't have to learn a new language ... javascript ecosystem ... Vue.js ...

You seem to be assuming that everyone is a javascript developer and wants to work in it.

[plondon514]

No, but not everyone is a smalltalk developer either.

[anton96]

Sad thing is that is harder to find documentation for smalltalk thant for javascript.

I was very intersted in smalltalk at first but I had a very hard time to find somehing above the Transcript object example.

Heck even glamourous toolkit doesn't have it's documentation on its website either while I could found Quark's api doc right away.That's sad.