Hi, I’m Benoit 👋

I’m a PhD in Computer Science and research engineer at Berger-Levrault.
I build open-source tools for application modernization and migration (e.g., GUI → web) and maintain developer tooling like VSCode-Pharo.
My goal: make complex software migration and language tooling more accessible, reproducible, and open.

About me

• 🎓 PhD thesis: Incremental approach for application GUI migration using metamodels (defended in 2021).
• 🤝 Collaboration: research conducted with Inria and Berger-Levrault, leading to semi-automatic migration tools.
• 🌍 Open science: my work has been recognized by the French Open Science Award for excellence and openness.
• 💻 Open-source contributor: maintaining tools for developers (Pharo, VSCode integrations, GitHub actions).

Why sponsor me?

Your sponsorship allows me to:

• Maintain and expand open-source projects like VSCode-Pharo.
• Add new features: debugging, notebook integration, Pharo ↔ VSCode synchronization.
• Provide thorough documentation, reproducible examples, and tests.
• Share knowledge with the community (tutorials, articles, talks).

Even small contributions make a big difference in keeping these tools alive, accessible, and well-documented.

Featured open-source projects

• VSCode-Pharo
  A VSCode extension for Pharo, supporting:
  • Syntax highlighting, autocompletion, hovers, diagnostics.
  • Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) integration.
  • Tonel file support (.st, .class.st).
  • Code execution from VSCode with result inspection.
  • Moose notebook integration (Markdown + code cells).
  • Image ↔ editor synchronization.
    (MIT-licensed, contributions welcome!)

Links

• GitHub: badetitou
• Personal website / blog: badetitou.fr
• ORCID: available on my profile

🙏 Thanks for your support — together we can keep pushing open-source tooling