Self gets used by the enthusiasts in production, for a suitable definition of production. I believe the Self website is served by a webserver written in Self fo

Self gets used by the enthusiasts in production, for a suitable definition of production. I believe the Self website is served by a webserver written in Self for example. I've also served my blog in the past from a Self webserver. I found the comment in the post about how a few lines of code would be better than the object interactions in the GUI interesting. I thought this would be the case when I started using Self too but even with the GUI you still write code. The method bodies for example are all textual code that feels like programming in any other language. Where the GUI excels is exploring systems, prototyping designs - and then refactoring the design towards a production implementation. It also makes the applications 'live' for users. They can drill down into the application objects and see how things work. The line between OS, application, and development is very blurry in Self.