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I immediately recognized the name OTI, because I had seen it in some early articles about SWT, which is now the cross-platform UI toolkit of Eclipse. So, was SW
by mwcampbell 9y ago
I immediately recognized the name OTI, because I had seen it in some early articles about SWT, which is now the cross-platform UI toolkit of Eclipse. So, was SWT also originally implemented in Smalltalk? Or did it come after the transition to Java?
- igouy 9y agoYes, the SWT / Swing divergence previously existed as the IBM Smalltalk / VisualWorks Smalltalk native-widgets / emulated-widgets divergence.
- hboon 9y agoI don't know about the internals. But OTI developed Visual Age for Smalltalk and other VA for X products such VA for Java. They were all written mostly in Smalltalk, including VAJ (very interesting! It was a VM that ran both Smalltalk and Java). Eclipse was supposed to be inherited from VAJ, but having used Eclipse in its early days, I didn't see much resemblance..