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Kind of wild to see interest in Smalltalk again. I moved on from the language back in the 90s after being a SmallTalk/V and ParcPlace developer for a couple de
by retrocryptid 4y ago
Kind of wild to see interest in Smalltalk again. I moved on from the language back in the 90s after being a SmallTalk/V and ParcPlace developer for a couple decades. Don't take this as a critique of your interest in Smalltalk. It is an awesome little language that's slowly been getting better for larger projects over the last decade. I would encourage you to look at Self, but coaxing the most recent version to run on modern computers is a difficult and undocumented task. Lively Kernel is also interesting, sort of like Self meets JavaScript meets SVG. Worth checking out if you like Smalltalk: https://lively-kernel.org/ https://lively-kernel.org/
- neilv 4y agoSelf was great in multiple ways, and worth reading up on and playing with. Looks like distributions are at: https://selflanguage.org/ https://selflanguage.org/ and repo at: https://github.com/russellallen/self https://github.com/russellallen/self Java and many other languages (JIT), Squeak (morphs worlds), and JavaScript (class-less prototype object system), later got some of the Self magic. But I think Self was where I first used all of those.
- __d 4y agoNewtonSript, the native language of Apple's Newton devices, was also heavily influenced by Self. See http://newtonscript.org/ http://newtonscript.org/ for doc, examples, etc.