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Enough with ducktape. Just use a fucking Smalltalk already. Cuis, Squak, Pharo. If you want to ship a runtime environment with your apps you might as well ship
by gambler 7y ago
Enough with ducktape. Just use a fucking Smalltalk already. Cuis, Squak, Pharo. If you want to ship a runtime environment with your apps you might as well ship a good one. They have good UI development tools, fast VM and have (from my experience) much better cold startup time than anything based on Electron or Java.
- scroot 7y agoI would like to do this for my next project, but unfortunately appearance matters to clients. It is far easier to make something that looks "modern" using something like Electron than it is any of the open source Smalltalk systems. The Pharo team are doing excellent work to try to change this. In particular, Spec2 promises to deliver multiple backends including GTK. I think that can really change things for Smalltalk users. But for now it's just not there. I wish appearances didn't matter. But they do.