Yes, you’re right. Our alternative “stack” combines:
- Pharo/GT for desktop live coding.
- TiddlyWiki for web live coding and dynamic Single Page Applications.
- Markdeep and Markdown/Pandoc for static HTML/PDF publishing.
- Fossil SCM for web hosting and distributed collaboration.
Again, it is related with the idea of having a good expressiveness/simplicity ratio. And it is refreshing being able to arrange such stacks without almost any considerations about popular/legacy/trendy techs. Our use of Git/GitHub or popular programming languages, for example, is as minimal as we can.