Re: suggested persistence approach for new app

Charles Monteiro <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Apr 2023 10:46:22 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.vwnc
Message-ID <CANzC3aQmOCjM6Y0rj_9=iWncH_P72o1KOsva0Kq9xBfUNdGr8w@mail.gmail.com>
nothing really wrong with Mongo, but if you are going to model OO Gemstone
is better
I have to double check if one can run Gemstone under WSL now , there were
issues before

On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 6:22 AM giorgio ferraris <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi, Charles,
>
> I use an approach close to the Glorp one. The only difference is that I
> use my own ORM I started developing before glorp existence, on the old
> Smalltalk/V ,and moved it to VisualSmalltalk, VW and also c# ... being
> homegrown, it follows perfectly my needs.
>  What's wrong with Mongo?
> Happy Easter
> ciao
>
> giorgio
>
> BTW: porting to c#, a long time ago, made it really clear the number of
> constraints that a statically typed language imposes on your code, and the
> beauty of Smalltalk. But customers wanted c#....
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 9:17 PM Charles Monteiro <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Assuming that Gemstone is already a candidate, although that case I would
>> be doing it thru a web interface which needed further development for my
>> purposes, what would people here do for persistence ?
>>
>> Plain old EXDI to an RDMS ?
>>
>> Glorp ?
>>
>> or the MongoDriver which I see has at least been updated to 4.4.8 ?
>>
>> from I"m using it from VW perspective what would be better i.e. for a
>> brand new app ?
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> --
>> Charles A. Monteiro
>>
>>

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