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I had the exact same thought! A custom IDE with all the source stored in a database is extremely smalltalk, although here the source is stored in a shared DB (i

I had the exact same thought! A custom IDE with all the source stored in a database is extremely smalltalk, although here the source is stored in a shared DB (it seems), rather than a per-user DB as it is with a regular smalltalk image.

igouy 5y ago
Back in the day, Morgan Stanley & JPMorgan & …, used ENVY/Developer — fine-grained Smalltalk config-map / sub-application / class / method configuration & version control in a central database. "Mastering ENVY/Developer" https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Developer/ld6E19QIMo4C?gbpv=1 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope... Some folk worked as "librarians" to promote code reuse across projects.