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There are Smalltalks that don't live in a VM. I still contend that the Smalltalk vendors overpriced their wares in the era of Turbo Pascal and they all went a
by protomyth 5y ago
There are Smalltalks that don't live in a VM. I still contend that the Smalltalk vendors overpriced their wares in the era of Turbo Pascal and they all went a bit Java crazy which amounted to nothing.
It is a shame that Self and F-Script didn't gain a bit of attention.
- nunb 5y agoA pity about F-Script for sure, if only it had targeted app builders. Smalltalk history seems to be littered with abandoned projects. Amber ST in the browser and F-Script on OSX come foremost to mind.
- ck45 5y agoDon't forget Ambrai Smalltalk which had a really cool beta version but then disappeared. F-Script was really awesome, even more with F-Script Anywhere
- fault1 5y agoSelf was quite influential in the language development world however, perhaps most so in JavaScript itself. StrongTalk was also very influential, because many of its developers also ended up working on core parts of the JVM and V8 JITs both at Sun and Google.
- foobiekr 5y agoQKS was a prime offender complete with asking a completely sincere “wait what happened?” afterwards.