Yes the analogy to an OS is good. Many language comparisons sadly miss this because they just look at Smalltalk through a 'programming language' lens and only s

Yes the analogy to an OS is good. Many language comparisons sadly miss this because they just look at Smalltalk through a 'programming language' lens and only see at a slice of the Smalltalk system. Interestingly there is an Pharonos project (maybe defunct now?) http://pillarhub.pharocloud.com/hub/mikefilonov/pharonos http://pillarhub.pharocloud.com/hub/mikefilonov/pharonos