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Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment

Make systems explainable through contextual micro tools

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Contextual micro tools?

Each problem about your system is special. And each problem can be
explained through contextual development experiences. Glamorous
Toolkit enables you to build such experiences out of micro tools.
Thousands of them ... per system. It's called Moldable Development.

Watch Tudor Girba's YOW 2023 talk
(The first two minutes has poor sound quality, but it's still worth
it ;))

A single environment. Many use cases

Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development environment made out of
visual and interactive operators that can be combined inexpensively
in many ways.

API exploration

Discover and browse API data

Software analysis

Explore your code from many perspectives

Data exploration

Unearth patterns in data through visualization

DevOps investigations

Analyze logs and system behavior

System documentation

Make the system tell its stories

System specific editors

Create context-aware editing experiences

Software assessment example

An interactive exploration of dependencies between ActiveRecords in a
Rails application that also shows the Ruby and SQL sources.

API exploration example

Exploring a REST API through contextual views.

DevOps investigations example

Investigating the logs of a failing Jenkins continuous delivery job.

Data exploration example

Exploring the data exported from a Twitter account.

System documentation example

Exploring the book about Glamorous Toolkit written in Glamorous
Toolkit.

System specific editors example

Editing a AT Protocol lexicon definition at the domain level:
highlighting of name strings, completion inside JSON strings,
navigation from a reference to its definition.

How to start?

Download and run.

To exploit Glamorous Toolkit, you have to program it. To learn how to
program it, first learn how to learn inside the environment.

Then pick a problem you care about and work your way through it.

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Watch Oscar Nierstrasz's GT in 7 minutes series.

Made to work with many languages and technologies

Glamorous Toolkit is implemented in Pharo and Rust but it was
designed to be extended for other technologies and languages. It can
be used to analyze various sources such as Java, C#, Ruby/Rails,
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React or COBOL. And it can be used to
work with various runtimes like GraphQL, Python, JavaScript or
Gemstone.

[user-case-]

Editing GraphQL and exploring a server response from a Lepiter page.

[gt-python-]

Explaining a tokenization algorithm implemented in Python.

[own-enviro]

A dedicated environment for defining support for other languages.

[gt-cobol-s]

Exploring COBOL screens, control flows and source code.

So, what exactly is Moldable Development again?

Moldable Development is a way of programming through contextual tools
built for each problem.

The premise of Moldable Development is that there is no single
perspective on a system that is correct. There are always many, and
different parts of the system are best shown differently. These
shapes summarize the system from specific perspectives. This then
leads to a compressed communication and a new feedback loop.

Glamorous Toolkit itself is an extensive case study of how contextual
tools enhance programming abilities. It comes out of the box with
thousands of extensions and examples that touch on the whole system.

The goal? To make the inside of systems explainable.

Watch Simon Wardley and Tudor Girba chat about Moldable Development
and thousands of tools per system.
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