Re: Idea: Can we modify Devel::REPL or combine with Perl Object Environment to have programmatic interaction with a gtk2-perl process like in other languages?

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks post harvard edu>]

On 22:47 Tue 21 Apr     , Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> Mitchell, I think you misunderstood my point - it wasn't about advocacy.
>
> It was about automated code generation vs language features and personal
> preferences WRT the features.
>
> So, an automatically generated code for one language may look natural for
> that language and the "same" (up to syntax differences) code for another
> language looks unnatural and unnecessarily hardly maintainable.

I see your point, and agree about automatically generated code. I am sorry I misunderstood... 

However I am talking about something else entirely.
 
I would like to develop my code without having to knock down my application 
and rerun each time I make a change. I will explain below why. 

If you can, take a look at Ryans plugin!!! It is exactly what I had in mind. His plugin works
directly on my Debian box.  Also in his POD, he gives an example to code
 the exact steps I wanted to do, such as to add and then remove a widget in a running application!!!!!

Moreover, if I can figure out the Stylish emacs setup of Jonathan Rockway (see the video link I gave you)
it will be awesome!


Consider this. I am writing a complex gui application to display medical images. My code will operate on a 
stack of
a 500 - 1000 images.  I use many libraries - PDL POGL gtk2-perl and other C++ and java libraries to get at 
the raw data. 
It takes time to start the application and load the images. 

Currently, each time I do a change in my opengl code I exit
from a working instance and  need to reload all that crap. I would rather just change a callback in a REPL
and keep working on a live instance.

This is normal behavior in Lisp development (according to Lispers). We should have this in perl too! Now we do
with Stylish and now with this plugin in Gtk2-perl.... I need to check to see how it works out.

Look at the Stylish REPL Emacs video! It is cool!

I am very optimistic and excited!

Mitchell