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Are any of the commercial Smalltalk implementations worth using anymore? They kinda of strike me as a relic of a past time and I don't understand how some of th

Are any of the commercial Smalltalk implementations worth using anymore? They kinda of strike me as a relic of a past time and I don't understand how some of them are still in business. The Cincom people run "Smalltalk job board" with a depressingly small amount of monthly listings many which involve rewriting Smalltalk systems or are written in such a way which makes you imagine very little Smalltalk is actually used.

igouy 6y ago
> actually used Legacy systems are actually used. If you don't have legacy systems then ride the wave of enthusiasm that comes with using the latest newest tech.
madhadron 6y ago
Dolphin is now open source and still a viable way to build Win32 apps. If only I had a need to write apps solely for Windows...
LarvaFX 6y ago
Well there are a few companies that use Cincom, for example Deutsche Bahn, HRworks, OOCL. Others use Pharo. Instantiations is supporting old IBM VASmalltalk installations. But I don't think it makes to much sense in starting new Smalltalk developments besides the learning experience.
- cultus 6y ago
  I tried to take Pharo for a test drive a while back, but it doesn't support hidpi displays. It would be really cool if someone made an implementation with an IDE for the JVM, like Clojure. Something to make it practical and fit in with modern ecosystems would be great.