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by GeneralMaximus 957 days ago
The idea makes sense to me. It's basically Emacs, but using Smalltalk instead of Lisp. Instead of using plain text to create your user interface, you have access to a built-in UI toolkit. That's very neat!

What's more interesting to me is the fact that the Glamorous Toolkit UI looks perfectly crisp on my M1 MacBook screen, whereas the Pharo IDE is a blurry mess because it doesn't support "retina" screens. If GT is built on top of Pharo, then why does Pharo still not support high DPI screens?
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lukego 957 days ago
GToolkit uses a completely parallel graphics stack to standard Pharo. The VM and library ecosystem are still there but the UI is rebuilt from scratch on a modern vector based toolkit.

The productivity of the GToolkit developers is impressive.

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GeneralMaximus 954 days ago
Oh, that’s very cool. Do you think it’s possible that Squeak and/or Pharo will ever want to build upon the UI work done by the GToolkit developers?
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sebastianconcpt 957 days ago 

   The productivity of the GToolkit developers is impressive.
Is it demoed in some video?
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lukego 957 days ago
I've been following their work for the past five years or so. They have covered a lot of ground!
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tudorgirba 957 days ago
There is a YouTube channel with a number of videos at different levels of detail.
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