I only did a small amount of squeak programming many years after smalltalk’s heyday but I found the live interface incredibly productive. It was lisp’s image ba

I only did a small amount of squeak programming many years after smalltalk’s heyday but I found the live interface incredibly productive. It was lisp’s image based systems with an incredibly useful gui. I created a small audio app with it very quickly. I wish more languages would incorporate it. The closest thing I know of is inspecting DOM elements through javascript’s debugger and using the developer console to run operations on them. But that only lasts until you press refresh. With smalltalk, seeing an object and then being able to edit the object and then making it interact with other objects made OOP come alive, rather than Java’s inheritance soup with dubiously modelled classes that eventually made developers want to throw away OOP.