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Gnu Smalltalk isn't used often (as far as I'm aware). If you use something more common like Pharo or Squeak, the base image includes things like the IDE, windo

Gnu Smalltalk isn't used often (as far as I'm aware). If you use something more common like Pharo or Squeak, the base image includes things like the IDE, window environment, etc. and accounts for the 50MB size. Edit I should mention that shipping smalltalk applications generally means shipping the entire image. While there is work to make distributing just the code easier (EG. iceberg mentioned in the article) I don't believe this is yet a common practice. Even in that scenario however, you'll need an image to run that code and it will still be 50+MB.

igouy 7y ago
> … shipping smalltalk applications generally means … Is that what Edward Diego meant? Is Hello world what "smalltalk applications" generally means?
- epsilon_greedy 7y ago
  That is what I took "distributable unit" to mean, yes. Perhaps it's not fair to say that this is true for "hello world" as you've shown in your Visual Works example and jolmg has shown with GST.
  - igouy 7y ago
    > not fair That's not the issue. Not sensible is the issue. What relevance does the distributable size of hello world have when the goal is to develop enterprise scale systems?