Two different Smalltalk-on-embedded articles on the front page of Hacker news right now: This one (by me) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34208753 http

Two different Smalltalk-on-embedded articles on the front page of Hacker news right now: This one (by me) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34208753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34208753 Yes, Toit is pretty much a Smalltalk dialect. Similarities Blocks (closures passed to functions as a foundation of control flow) Blocks have non-local return (you can return from the syntactically enclosing fn in a block). Block arguments introduced with | | delimiters Single inheritance object orientation Dynamic typing but type safe Named arguments Uses virtual machine to run, including garbage collector. Differences Toit's syntax is more like a cleaned up Python than Smalltalk. Toit also has positional arguments. Toit's blocks are more lightweight than Smalltalk closures (no allocation) Development is with source files and compiler, not image-based. Toit has optional types, and if you use them they are checked. (Types are non-nullable by default.) Toit has interfaces Toit can build standalone executables, VM included Toit has top level functions not attached as methods to some class. Array (List) indexing is 0-based, not 1-based. Quick intro here: https://docs.toit.io/language https://docs.toit.io/language